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I totally and completely blame Microsoft for this. They do so many other ridiculous things in the name of not confusing the average tech illiterate user.
Clicking a Zip file and having it transparently open and treating it like a regular folder when it is not. This. THIS is borderline criminal.
Propose a better way to browse the contents of a zip folder in a native 1st party way
Have a popup text line in explorer that says "you are browsing inside of a compressed file, you must extract the contents to use them" or something. The functionality is already there, when you go to "network" it says "network sharing and discovery is turned off, click here to turn it on"
The operating system could mount it as a virtual drive, then all its contents could be used directly just like any regular folder.
Imo not really noob-user friendly.
My proposal: Keep current behaviour and make a prompt if the user tries to run an executable. Prompt should be something like "You are trying to open an executable, would you like to extract the whole folder in the current directory?". This way the user can still browse the zip with relative ease.
Upside from Windows: We have only a handful of extensions unlike (afaik) Linux where everything can be made executable and be run.
In what way? It would make it entirely invisible that the archive file isn't just a normal folder, it would be possible to use it just as if it were. What would be unfriendly about that?
Something like this would be helpful:
https://files.catbox.moe/ypayke.mp4
Perfect.