Honestly: Yes. It’s an example that perfectly encapsulates how windows “as a concept” actively babies and dumbs down its users. I the 00’s, nobody had a problem with file extensions, but now that we’re working with users that have grown up with computers we suddenly need to remove them because they’re “too confusing”?
Of all the reasons to be like “Windows bad, Linux good!” This one doesn’t really hit.
Of all the actual differences, this is the one people think makes Linux superior? This is just a circle jerk lol.
Honestly: Yes. It’s an example that perfectly encapsulates how windows “as a concept” actively babies and dumbs down its users. I the 00’s, nobody had a problem with file extensions, but now that we’re working with users that have grown up with computers we suddenly need to remove them because they’re “too confusing”?
You don’t love heading to the terminal to add the executable flag and run it?
I right click in nautilus to open the properties window and check the checkbox :)