Comment No, extensions are bad and evil (Score 1) 564
No, the problem is with extensions, and we should get rid of extensions once and for all. Those are an artifact of 1980s DOS times, and should not be used at all by modern systems. Maybe they are convenient for the user to see what kind of type the user should expect, but nothing more and the "hide extension" "feature" just shows the _problem_ of file extensions.
Modern systems should recognize file types based on the content of the file, not on some stupid extension. For example, a