> What is the benefit of sorting on extensions? Since extensions have no meaning to the kernel and, only a few oddball applications (tar, gzip) care about exten

> What is the benefit of sorting on extensions? Since extensions have no meaning to the kernel and, only a few oddball applications (tar, gzip) care about extensions. It communicates to the human what the file is, and makes it easier to find the file you want if you only have to look through 5 files of type X rather than 60 assorted files. Humans are the number 1 users of terminal interfaces, so this changes helps that demographic.