[tomtomtom1]

I don't understand why no one is blaming the education system?

How is it possible that students that are being considered for "advanced placement" are not familiar with file formats?

how horrible and backward your education system must be? This belongs to basic literacy in the modern world.

Note we're not speaking about old people who were exposed to files for the first time while they had to balance a family life and other responsibilities.

We're speaking about people that were forced to spend more than half of their lives learning !!!

[smileysteve]

Because in a world where apps do everything for you and 80% of your use is on a phone and the remaining 20% is either for a once a year use case, you don't need to worry about image formats.

Even as a software engineer, I haven't used a desktop or windows in 5 years. I haven't used TheGimp (or any other non web/app image manipulation software) in 3 years.

[tomtomtom1]

that's interesting, so you use an iPad for your day to day programming?

from my experience converting ppt/word to pdf is a common enough use case that I would've assumed the majority of non-tech people run into it.

Latex is also a common case where you run into file extensions.

note I'm not expecting them to understand the difference between extensions, just what they mean and how to google how to convert between them.

[ficklepickle]

They don't learn any critical thinking skills. Memorization != learning.