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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

if you give elevated permission to movie.mp4.exe, that's natural selection

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

I feel like there's a lot of misunderstanding about what I'm trying to say.

I'm saying the average windows user will begin to get fatigue when some installers ask for elevation 3 times (maybe more). They'll end up just pavlovian clicking OK whenever that prompt appears. Which ends up circumventing the whole reason the prompt exists.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't know. Not everyone who uses a computer should be an expert. Not everyone is 100% alert all the time. I know there has to be a line somewhere.

I feel like it would be really easy to have the OS check if the exe is appended to some other extension and force the user to rename it before allowing it to be executed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

There has to be a level of "competently trained user" in there we can strive for. I think we were getting there about the time I was in high school circa 2003, where every last one of us could format an MLA essay in MS Word and do an autosum in Excel.

Something that put me off of Microsoft products for a decade before I switched to Linux was their constant rearranging of the UI, requiring users to re-learn how to do basic tasks that worked just fine.