• MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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    2 months ago

    Never understood why Windows’ explorer hides extension by default. Does MS fear it would confuse their users?

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      2 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

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        2 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.

        • Ace! _SL/S@ani.social
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          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)

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            2 months ago

            Classic ticket.
            “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”