I have been reading linux manuals since 1999, and none of the security arguments make any sense. The real reason is that linux allows any file to be executed, of any extension. The whole reason you have extensions is to avoid clicking on any file, or calling any file, on accident.

In windows, you have exe, bats, which any user knows not to click on, unless they put them there themselves or wrote the program. Problem solved. However, there is an idiot warning now days that you are running an exe. A good application firewall allows rules for running new untrusted applications, as well as which folders it can write to.

I don't know where most folks get their ideas of security. 1 I need to see the extension. 2. run an application firewall (I am not talking an internet or network firewall), which is way better than permissions, or at least needs to be layers on top.

I have been reading Linux manuals since 1999, and none of the security arguments make any sense. The real reason is that Linux allows any file to be executed, of any extension. The whole reason you have extensions is to avoid clicking on any file, or calling any file, on accident.

In Windows, you have exe, bats, which any user knows not to click on, unless they put them there themselves or wrote the program. Problem solved. However, there is an idiot warning now days that you are running an exe. A good application firewall allows rules for running new untrusted applications, as well as which folders it can write to.

I don't know where most folks get their ideas of security.

1. I need to see the extension.
2. run an application firewall (I am not talking an internet or network firewall), which is way better than permissions, or at least needs to be layers on top.