Security ( discuss.tchncs.de )

PerogiBoi , vor 2 Monaten

The 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

Sanctus , vor 2 Monaten

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 , vor 2 Monaten

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

Sanctus , vor 2 Monaten

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 , vor 2 Monaten

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 , vor 2 Monaten

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.

Steve , vor 2 Monaten

Governments and banks love to do it too.

rtxn , vor 2 Monaten

What do you mean? linkin_park_-_numb.mp3 clearly has an extension, it's all the other files that don't!

dysprosium , vor 2 Monaten

This sounds like Windows

Lmaydev , vor 2 Monaten

Winget, get a popup when things request elevated rights,

JoYo , vor 2 Monaten

winget is great, i wish it was oob tho.

Cassa , vor 2 Monaten

where Linux?

smileyhead OP , vor 2 Monaten

You know a more fitting comminity to post it?

lazynooblet , vor 2 Monaten

Maybe we should make windowsmemes.

This community may as well be hatewindowsmemes

frippa , vor 2 Monaten

50% of being a Linux user is hate towards Windows so I'd say it fits

TrickDacy , vor 2 Monaten

You say that like it's a bad thing

frippa , vor 2 Monaten

Hell naw, fuck Microsoft 🖕

Kerb , vor 2 Monaten

the other 50% is hate torwards nvidia

TrickDacy , vor 2 Monaten

And 100% of it is fair

irmoz , vor 2 Monaten

80% of the reason to move to Linux is hating Windows, so yeah

SandbagTiara2816 , vor 2 Monaten

It’s what brought me over! And then I learned so many more reasons to hate it that I hadn’t even known about lol

Emerald , vor 2 Monaten

I moved to Linux because of free software. Not necessarily of hate for Windows