For sure and I agree that should be enough but the average person is not good with computers and they don’t want to learn. They won’t understand the nuances of different distributions of Linux. Like try explaining the difference between a .deb, a .tar.gz, and a .rpm to a person who’s already hésitent about using Linux. Flatpak solves that by just having one download that any Linux install can use
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Oh 100% but have you tried to explain how to use one to a computer novice? Like yes, the answer is usually “they should just…” but novice users will never. With flatpak, they get an experience similar to how MacOS works and a bit like how .exes work and it Just Works™️
Edit: like I’ve had trouble showing people how to use the GNOME App Store which could not be any more simple. Anyone who has been convinced to install Linux already feels way out of their element so making everything feel as natural as possible is essential (and I mean, flatpaks are awesome anyway)
I love installing things from the CLI and prefer to only do it that way but Linux needs a single click install method for applications if it’s ever going to become a mainstream OS. The average person just wants to Google a program, hit download and install. If not that then they want to use a mobile-like App Store.
Flatpak is kind of perfect at achieving both those things
NotSteve_@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•‘We the people’ is a timeless ideal of American democracy. What’s gone wrong?2·17 days agoWhile the US has problems, merely having a constitution (1) the courts meaningfully refer to (2) that demands special effort to amend isn’t clearly a problem.
I can agree with that. I guess what I take more of an issue with really comes down to “American civil religion”.
Americans seem to be taught (from my outsider perspective) that the basis of which the US was founded upon is perfect and needs no changing ever. There’s so much propaganda surrounding the founding documents that even suggesting changing something is basically akin to blasphemy. Like look at the second amendment. Even suggesting that maybe it doesn’t fit into modern society is considered heresy.
That sort of thing is why I really don’t like politicians claiming that their country is “the best in the world”. You see it in Canada too, and I hate it because even if it’s true, it just sort of waves away the many improvements that can be made. There’s ALWAYS things to improve upon
NotSteve_@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•‘We the people’ is a timeless ideal of American democracy. What’s gone wrong?1·17 days agoThat’s kind of my point though. In Canada, the only reason I know our constitution is even looked at in 2025 is because my friend works in environmental policy. The amount of times I hear that some American was exonerated in a court case because <something> broke the <something> US constitutional amendment is crazy. It’s just weird to me that a short document that was mostly written so long ago plays such a part in American law, especially with what you mentioned about it being so hard to update. This has been said to death but the right to bear arms was an amendment written when guns were single shot and took ages to reload.
NotSteve_@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•‘We the people’ is a timeless ideal of American democracy. What’s gone wrong?3·17 days agoI guess I’m confused at your original response. Like I know other countries have constitutions (my own does even). What I’m saying is that it only seems to be the US that holds their constitution up as some sort of biblical document that’s near impossible to change or update. I know the “founding fathers (🤢)” intended it to be a living document which it is not.
Americans seem to assume that the opinions of some random dudes near 3 centuries ago are perfect and shouldn’t ever be changed
NotSteve_@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•‘We the people’ is a timeless ideal of American democracy. What’s gone wrong?1·18 days agoEvery other country manages to get by without having a magical biblical-like document guiding them on all their laws
NotSteve_@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•‘We the people’ is a timeless ideal of American democracy. What’s gone wrong?746·18 days agoYou guys have a system set up by a bunch of random guys 3 centuries ago that you worship as gods and refuse to update. That might be part of it
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Ah, that’s actually what I was thinking of in my previous comment