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Re: LibreOffice fucking with my app defaults

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On 2025-01-08 08:06, Nick Charles wrote:
> On 1/7/2025 9:19 AM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>> On 2025-01-07 08:46, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>> Nick Charles wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>>>
>>>> On 1/6/2025 6:14 PM, DFS wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) click a file type with a default app and it opens in that app
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) install LibreOffice 24.8.4.2 for Windows (typical install)
>>>>>
>>>>> 3) click a file type (with a default app) that can also be opened 
>>>>> by LO
>>>>>      and now I'm asked which app to open it with
>>>>>
>>>>> And, all document types that LO handles that were not assigned a 
>>>>> default
>>>>> app were assigned to LO without my permission.
>>>>
>>>> All standard stuff.   Are you new to Windows?   Maybe you should have
>>>> chosen Custom Install.
>>>>
>>>> You DO realize these are very easy to change back, right?
>>>
>>> He does. But he just likes to bitch about Linux and other FOSS.
>>
>> It's a very odd thing to complain about though. A ton of file types 
>> couldn't be opened before and suddenly they are, so DFS is unhappy 
>> about it. If there is an application he would prefer to use to open 
>> those formats, he is free to install it and then change the defaults 
>> to that application by going into those settings, finding the 
>> application and allowing it to manage all supported formats. He's 
>> grasping at straws at this point.
> 
> All good points.
> 
> Not to mention that he gave "permission" to do all of this when he did 
> the "typical install".
> 
> Sounds like a Windows Newbie.

He's just looking for problems. He hasn't had a stellar Linux experience 
and I can sympathize with him in that respect. There _are_ tons of very 
poorly constructed distributions which give the impression that the 
operating system as a whole is bad. openSUSE was the first one I used 
which was great on my previous laptop. Heck, it was the only one which 
allowed that machine to wake from suspend. Fedora is the best I've used 
on this machine. Unfortunately, a lot of us keep thinking that Ubuntu 
will provide a stellar experience, similarly the ones based on it, and 
the reality is that it is put together very poorly. The fact that it and 
its derivatives freeze for no reason should be the main evidence of that.

-- 
CrudeSausage
Unapologetic paleoconservative

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LibreOffice fucking with my app defaults DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-06 18:14 -0500
  Re: LibreOffice fucking with my app defaults Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-06 19:21 -0500
  Re: LibreOffice fucking with my app defaults Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-07 05:02 +0000
  Re: LibreOffice fucking with my app defaults Nick Charles - 2025-01-07 00:20 -0500
    Re: LibreOffice fucking with my app defaults Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-01-07 08:46 -0500
      Re: LibreOffice fucking with my app defaults Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-07 09:19 -0500
        Re: LibreOffice fucking with my app defaults Nick Charles - 2025-01-08 08:06 -0500
          Re: LibreOffice fucking with my app defaults CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-08 13:52 -0500

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