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This is great, but I honestly hate the way that windows treats zips like they are just folders on your computer when they are fundamentally different, and I want to do different things with them. Sure, it’s nice to be able to browse the files inside, but I can do that with 7zip.

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lmaydev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The whole point is most people don’t want a third party app.

I also think for most users treating them as a normal folder makes complete sense.

Chances are you aren’t the target audience of the default configuration of windows. It’s aimed at people who have trouble checking their email.

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- themurphy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  It’s aimed at people who have trouble checking their email.
  
  Opening ZIP natively in folder app really is just user friendly practices. Ofc it’s easier to able to browse its content that way.
  
  You shouldn’t need 3rd party software for things that simple.
  
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  - Specal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The problem being average people don’t tend to understand what a zip file is, I regularly have to explain that you can’t run an executable from a zip
    
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- MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Chances are you aren’t the target audience of the default configuration of windows.
  
  Yes. How to change it?
  
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  - Shayeta@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Pay Microsoft to the point where they make more money from you than their current target audience.
    
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  - Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Get the majority of computer users trained to the point of understanding how computers work.
    
    Microsoft is just catering to their biggest market.
    
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    MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    So does KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon, Mate, Pantheon. But i can fit them infinitely more tomy taste than Windows Explorer-extension (aka Windows Desktop). Well, ok, not Gnome. Not without unsupported extensions. Gnome Foundation is almost as bad in their ignorance of userbase.
    
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- prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Maybe they’re like that because they’ve been trained that way by shit software
  
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  - kadu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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    Knusper@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    What are you even talking about? Archives have been so much easier to use on Linux for many years, because that headline was built-in.
    
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    Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    What distro do you use which thinks an archive file needs executable permissions?
    
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