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Terminal > Windows Registry.

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

I get the impression "opening a file" is treated as a different action in Linux from "executing a file". They don't want the user request of "Oh, I guess I'll look at this image" to accidentally result in a system takeover - so any "run this file" actions are more manual.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I think it's becasue I downloaded a deb file or something that Canonical had decided was not allowed any more. Recent conroversy