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I do not need you to quote my own comments back to me.
Still lying, I see. None of that happened. You just fabricated all of it. I don't know why, it's there for everyone to see, you're only embarrassing yourself.
No. We didn't need it the first time and we don't need it again. Need you go away.
Another lie. That is very clearly not what I asked for. You even said yourself already that it's not right here:
Yes, there is. Several, in fact, as many others have actually helpfully pointed out at this point.
And even if there weren't, the answer would be a simple "no" or just continue scrolling and let the more-knowledgeable contributors answer instead of this needless and unwarranted attack on someone for asking a question.
More lies. Never happened. At no point did I ask for, "demand" or even want an explanation, and even after I've stated this several times here you are STILL trying to explain and put this forward as a solution. Get it through your head: I am not interested. Never was interested. I asked for something specific. If you don't have it, keep scrolling.
I have shown respect to the people who helped me. Several of you have decided you don't want to be helpful but instead choose to deride and insult me because I don't want to do it your way, as if I don't deserve it unless I've spent dozens of hours trying to make it work.
Ah yes, the classic "accuse other people of the things I'm doing" strategy.
I don't understand how you can take the time to write this out without understanding that it's not what I'm asking for.
In fact you already spelled out all of the additional configurations required to make this "kinda work" without understanding that I'm not interested in that shit.
And yet you are incapable of understanding why I'm not being polite anymore.
Your question in the post is the following:
The user specified a way to do that, implying that it is indeed possible to do it. They answered your question by providing the solution to how one would do about creating an OS that does that: include the WINE package, as it does that automatically.
First off, I corrected that segment a couple minutes after posting that reply (feel free to check the edit timestamp) as I was doing my initial read-over. You're replying to a part of a comment that no longer exists, and didn't exist at the time of your reply. Feel free to reply to the corrected section that was available to you at the time you posted your comment, not that I expect it to matter.
Perhaps you misunderstand how your original reply reads, but insulting someone by saying they didn't elaborate inherently implies that you want elaboration. If you didn't want elaboration, why does your comment specifically insult Linux users by saying they don't elaborate?
I (and the others in this thread), don't care how you choose to do something. It's Linux we're talking about, after all; there are many different ways to do any task. But dismissing a solution that is in fact very easy and you can do in a matter of minutes depending on how long it takes your package manager to download the WINE package, is ridiculous. If you don't want to do it that way, don't. But don't insult the solution by saying it's wrong when it in fact is not. I even tested it on my install and it took me 2 minutes with no setup other than installing WINE from the app store and downloading an installer .exe file for a Windows program. Just right make sure the .exe is marked as executable (it shouldn't be by default, so right click, properties/permissions, and tick the executable box), then right click and open with WINE (may have to use choose application menu depending on distro). From then on, any double click will automatically open a .exe file in WINE given it has executable permissions. It takes a couple minutes, not "dozens of hours".
If you're really so dead set on not doing it, simply stop replying. You aren't being held prisoner here, after all. You have the choice to choose what you reply to, and if you don't think it's worth your time (which is contrary to what you've shown by your numerous replies), then don't bother replying. I can't think of a simpler solution.
You asked if it's possible to make an OS to open .exe files by default. You were met with the original reply in this thread, which told you exactly how it would be possible. If you want to go through all the trouble of installing a completely new distro instead of spending 2 minutes following the instructions to apply this to your own, knock yourself out. But that's irrelevant to the fact that your question was answered (albeit indirectly) by giving you exactly how it would be done. If you're going to use Linux, I highly recommend you understand that installing a different distro will not solve all your problems. It's much easier to install a single package.
I'm not expecting you to be polite in response to me, and I never said that I would expect that. I met the hostility that you already had shown in your first 2 replies with hostility because I don't have the patience to try to be polite to you. My problem with your hostility is from before I started this conversation, when you insulted the entire Linux community. I don't see how that isn't clear given how specific I've been.