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    [–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    You have a point though. Why hide file types by default unless you believe the users are too dumb to ever learn what a few letters mean.

    [–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Hate to break it to you, but most users are that dumb.

    [–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    If they're that dumb leave the extensions on and let their eyes glaze over it like they would anyway. Hiding the extensions doesn't seem beneficial in any way.

    [–] RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

    if 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

    [–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

    I've seen people deleting those ugly *.exes and *.mp3s from their files. Hopefully they learned to not to, but I've heard cases who didn't.