A complex solution to the ‘broken file associations’ problem in Win10 1803

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Remember the bug publicized by Chris Hoffman in Howtogeek on Monday? Windows 10 won’t let you make Adobe Photoshop or Notepad++ a default application
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Aren’t computers supposed to make our lives easier? 

 

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It’s not the computer that is the problem, it’s the software arms race. Programmers seem to feel the need to bog down their own programs with features available elsewhere whether or not their own users want or use the feature  

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Maybe Windows really is trying to be more like Linux…. gotta run complex shell scripts just to get anything accomplished.

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anonymous wrote:

It’s not the computer that is the problem, it’s the software arms race. Programmers seem to feel the need to bog down their own programs with features available elsewhere whether or not their own users want or use the feature

Alas, a computer without software is just a very expensive door stop. 

 

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… which is more useful than software without a computer.

Silver lining: If it was all simple there’d be fewer specialists needed to solve the hard problems and fewer earning a living fixing the problems for others using those solutions.

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