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> The file extension bit is sort of silly as well, as, it's what made Windows as user-friendly and wide spread as it is today I don't think that showing a file
by ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
> The file extension bit is sort of silly as well, as, it's what made Windows as user-friendly and wide spread as it is today
I don't think that showing a file extension is massively confusing to people if they were always shown them. The problem is that there were real problems with a file extension looking like e.g. a picture, but instead had an executable extension e.g. image.jpg.exe