Security - tchncs

Never understood why Windows’ explorer hides extension by default. Does MS fear it would confuse their users?
Yes, they think their users will be confused by and accidentally remove extensions. To be fair that might happen sometimes but it’s nowhere near worth it

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.

I don’t think that anything like that exists in Windows. Generally that’s my least issue with windows honestly. It’s a POS on so many levels