"Open with..." is still the dumbest fucking thing that Microsoft can't get right in Windows. Opening a .webp file requires me to google the path of the Photos app in order to find it since a "quick look" feature is still not available like on Mac and Windows doesn't understand anything. I work in tech but how the f*ck are e.g. the elderly supposed to know what to do just to view a f*cking picture?? Are they supposed to be browsing the entire file structure on the system or alternatively "search for an app" in the app store?

With the newer Windows package formats, it's nearly impossible to correctly implement "Open with.." in a cross-platform way. Here's my unanswered question on Stack Overflow:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

Here's where I gave up in my applications:

https://gitlab.com/djsumdog/...

and here are the loaders for "classic" and "appx":

https://gitlab.com/djsumdog/...

It's a fucking mess.

i firmly disagree...

1. microsoft does tons of much more stupid things... like windows 11 hijacking my damn prtsc key for some gui snippy tool and making that process near kernel level with several... and i do mean several, redundancies... i had to write like a 20 line batch just to kill the fucking thing... and any chance of it ever reviving

2. dude... just manually set files to open with whatever you want based on ext.

i do it constantly... i have a whole system of shit with my own custom extensions... seriously like 50+... some are like batch scripts that arent finished so i want them to open in notepad.exe... some are things i want to be handled by my programs so they get piped to where i want, parsed how i want, located and in the format i want... its pretty simple

@awesomeest Mac is better in this sense, because you have the folder Apps, and there are all the apps. Very very simple. In Windows? Program Files (x86), Program Files, Program Files\WindowsApps, I'm sure there are more....

@djsumdog LOL "ZuneMusic" still a thing internally, haha I love it

I am pretty sure that Windows 11 does show you a list of a dozen potential apps to open a particular extension. Finding the suitable exe in program files folder is windows xp / windows 7 era.