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[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 139 points 6 months ago

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

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 61 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] Almrond@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago

You seriously underestimate the stupidity of 80% of windows users. They could put multiple warnings and people would still click past them without reading then bitch to their IT team when they break something.

[-] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 6 months ago
[-] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago

Gotta recycle this:

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