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Sigh. This again.

We have Windows users complaining all the time about having their settings reset for each update. Then again, I don't remember default applications on Linux not breaking as soon as you are looking the other way. Why do I have to clarify that I don't want to open text files in LTSpice, or that nobody should ever want to launch first Wine, then Chromium for every PDF file?

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  • 5
    6y
    Wine? What?
  • 11
    6y
    Every time I try to open a jpg in firefox, debian wants to launch IE via wine to open it. Haven't succeeded in fixing this yet. 😡
  • 6
    6y
    @Root ik a solution:

    Use Windows aka the best got dang OS there is, I tell you what.

    (Read that in a Hank Hill voice to get the full effect. Makes it 10x better in my opinion lol)

    /sarcasm_not_really_but_shhhh
  • 5
    6y
    The real issue here is that you have internet explorer installed. Fix it.
  • 4
    6y
    yeah, that behavior is annoying.. you can fix that behavior: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.ph...
  • 0
    6y
    I also hate that behavior, it even got to the point that xdg-open failed opening a jpg.
  • 0
    6y
    @electrineer: It comes with Wine by default if I'm not mistaken. At least I don't think I have deliberatly installed it.
  • 0
    6y
    @roger: Thanks! Didn't think of this solution.
  • 0
    6y
    It would seem that all OSs suffer from "default application-itis"

    I've never used MacOS but I assume that's probably fucked in it's own way too.
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