Yeah but then I can’t tell what filetypes they are. Having the type directly in the name is an awesome convention. And theoretically, it prevents the os from having to read every file’s contents. And it’s good for not having to use thumbnails. So you can have more condensed file browsing. It’s also better for proprietary filetypes and new things since the os doesn’t need to know wtf something is.
Your logic reminds me of using nondescript variable names in programming. Yes, the system will probably know, but I’m the user, I’m the person this is all for. And it’s good convention to have good naming convention. File extensions are nice to have and good convention.
Yeah but then I can’t tell what filetypes they are. Having the type directly in the name is an awesome convention. And theoretically, it prevents the os from having to read every file’s contents. And it’s good for not having to use thumbnails. So you can have more condensed file browsing. It’s also better for proprietary filetypes and new things since the os doesn’t need to know wtf something is.
Your logic reminds me of using nondescript variable names in programming. Yes, the system will probably know, but I’m the user, I’m the person this is all for. And it’s good convention to have good naming convention. File extensions are nice to have and good convention.
fair enough but i have the unpopular opinion that file extensions should be a prefix not a suffix so that all files of the same type sort together