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> Whenever a new app for a given filetype is added, Windows asks you which one you want to use. I prefer the old system where individual apps begged users to u
by kijin 6y ago
> Whenever a new app for a given filetype is added, Windows asks you which one you want to use.
I prefer the old system where individual apps begged users to use it as the default app for this or that filetype, and shut up if the user said no. If an app kept bothering the user to change (hello, every browser ever), that was the app's fault, not the platform's. Meanwhile, Windows dutifully kept sending the user to the default app.
Now that Windows has taken up the task of bothering the user, the responsibility for this annoying behavior is on Microsoft. They can and should be blamed for it.
- folbec 6y agoExcept there was no shortage of apps that made the change silently, without asking (or asking for one, and changing many), hijacking defaults. I too find the new system annoying, but its better than go hunting thru file formats looking for what had been changed silently.
- kijin 6y agoWindows 10 actually fixed that problem. For the most part, apps can't change defaults silently anymore. The settings page for changing default apps has also been revamped, so it's a lot easier to use than in previous versions. It would have been marvelous if Microsoft stopped right there. Instead, they chose to annoy users with an unskippable dialog box whenever a new app is installed that claims to know how to handle a PDF, JPG, or whatever. Fuck it, every app and their dog knows how to handle PDFs these days. I'm just waiting for the day when Windows suggests Slack as the default music player.
- withinboredom 6y agoSlightly off-topic, but it would be an epic april fools joke if Slack actually implemented that just to troll Windows users.