>You're not really talking about Linux. You're talking about mime types and xdg-open, the de-facto default way Linux desktop environments (not to be confused with distros) handle default applications.

Yes, but the github page this post is about is making that same mistake.

> Meanwhile in Windows the default behavior is to hide file extensions which I think is actually the worst of both worlds.

Oh yes, terrible, I can't believe I actually forgot about that. I've modified that on every Windows computer I use.

Thanks for the info! I'll keep this in mind when I eventually switch to Linux like I've been meaning to for a while...