smileyhead
Cassa
lazynoobletMaybe we should make windowsmemes.
This community may as well be hatewindowsmemes
frippa
TrickDacy
Kerb
Emerald (she/her)
JoYolinkin_park_-_numb.mp3 clearly has an extension, it’s all the other files that don’t!
PerogiBoiThe OS designed to prime the population into bad cyber security practices so they are more easily able to exploit and scam later on.
takes off tinfoil hat
Sanctusif you designed the system so that the extension is part of the functionality, then you have to hide it away so that your users don’t accidentally delete or modify the extension thus rendering their files useless (within said system)
it’s a fundamental shell design flaw: one should never allow users to modify data critical to functionality. And it’s not something that can be changed because almost all applications depend on this
*.exes and *.mp3s from their files. Hopefully they learned to not to, but I’ve heard cases who didn’t.
One time I struggled debugging a program on a clean Windows machine. For some reason it seemed like it couldn’t find a JSON file that’s obviously in the system. I could even open the file on my own and view its contents.
Turns out after much frustration that the file was actually a json.txt file. I didn’t notice because the extension was hidden, so I only saw .json and thought it was fine.
sounds like vscode.
helix or micro on windows to get away from that garbage.
*.txt files. VSCode does not have issues like that.
Ah, right, in the context that Windows determines filetype only on extension.
Btw, there’s a bunch of mimeopen implementations for Linux. Is there something like that for Windows too.
They already have a confirmation box when you try to change the extension. And could just as easily move it into another column where it’s harder to change (explorer was like this once, a long time ago).
And yet, they keep hiding the on the rationale that it confuses the users. The most common thing on explorer is some user being confused because they can’t understand what clicking on a file is supposed to do, but that’s not an argument for showing them…
So, yeah, that’s the surface-level explanation. But there’s a deeper reason.
SonotsugipaaGotta recycle this:
To be honest, it is the IT teams fault if they allow their users to click past those warnings with admin rights themselves.
Now imagine those 80% of stupid Windows users on Linux.
They already have a confirmation box when you try to change the extension
I think you overestimate the average users willingness to read anything. Only thing they know is how to bitch about things not working even when they were told exactly why it’s not working/what they did (wrong)
“It’s broken, it doesn’t work”,
“what happened?”,
“I ran it like the instructions said, and it didn’t do anything”,
“was there an error message?”,
“I don’t know. Something popped up, but it was in the way so I closed it”,
“Do it again, don’t close the error message, and tell me what it says”
Or my mom.
Me: Don’t just click OK without reading the message first.
Mom: Don’t click OK. Got it.
CileTheSane
Patapon Enjoyer
WilkerLearn how to use your distribution’s package manager.
Also
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
covers what, about 60% of Linux desktops?
danAnd sudo apt full-upgrade when a new OS version is available.
full-upgrade is the same as upgrade except it’ll remove old packages if required. (e.g. programs that don’t support the new version and hold back the upgrade due to old dependencies). When upgrading Debian to a new release, I usually first run upgrade, then run full-upgrade and read the output very carefully before continuing.
I mean, bash is a code.
Till next time
Those are just tutorials showing how to install something. Typing flatpak install firefox is one and the same as going into the app store, searching for Firefox and clicking “install”. Tutorial websites would just show terminal as it’s more universal.
If they ask you to actually download some file there is something very wrong.
I often see people overwhelmed by universality of some things. Instead of searching “How to install Firefox on Linux?” what should be learned is “How to install software on Linux?” and, unless met with something badly ported, never do the search again.
But what my meme is about is Windows-only style of having some file and by default having no idea if that’s going to run in some program or be a program.
In much the way I am aware of the Windows store: I avoid it and work to get the software directly from the source. I regularly run into the issue of software not being there or being of unknown version.
Perhaps that is some bias from Windows following me over.
Transient Punk