I suppose it is hard for me to understand because I’ve never been confused about what the file format is, or the association that they have with default applica

I suppose it is hard for me to understand because I’ve never been confused about what the file format is, or the association that they have with default applications on a desktop. I’ve been a position where I had to help advertisers with images for their web shops. Many of the advertiser to that understand aspect ratio, a pixel size, compression or image format at a basic level. I do not think that the concept of a landscape versus portrait image is difficult, nor is the idea that one image is made out of 100,000 squares and another one’s made out of 1 million, or that some have 12 colors like crayons and others have millions like a photo. But many people don’t try to advance their knowledge at all, depending on others to do their computer work for them. This wastes a huge amount of everyone’s time. I don’t really think it’s a good system to teach people that they can operate with the absolute minimum knowledge needed to operate a computer. At times it reminds me of children who haven’t taken the steps to do something like learn to take the lid off a jar and so coming to get you to do it every time even a year after they could’ve been doing it themselves. I do understand that some people just don’t seem to get this stuff. My parents both have advanced degrees and were using computers when I was born, but they seem to have been struggling with the basics of emails and logins for 20 years now. The problem here is that we we are discussing systems within windows and windows has a poor system for all of this. I’m not sure what Microsoft can do to improve it since I can’t really think of many positive changes they’ve made in this regard in the past 20 years, other than confirming execution with admin rights. The main problem that comes up here is security. I agree that file formats don’t particularly matter to the average user, it only matters if a legitimate file opens in the right application when they click on it, and clicking on what appears to be a safe file doesn’t actually trigger an executable. Perhaps windows could prevent files from having a double extension. Perhaps MS could not allow executable files to be changed to different extensions. I don’t know. What I do know is that there’s many instances where hiding the extension has been a security problem, and I don’t know what evidence there is that it helps anyone use the system besides speculation. You can only dumb down a system so much before it loses necessary functionality.