Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
First thing that users may do on their Operating System is to deal with their files. Maybe they have documents, photos, videos, music, and so forth and they simply want to interact with them. Open, do simple editing, galleries and such. I chose a few of the most popular files to see how these two Operating Systems can deal with them. What apps do they use to open them? And can they open all of the files?
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The default Windows installation failed to open most of the document files and one of the files that it opened, it did not render it properly. Windows also failed to play a FLV video file and an OGG audio file. On top of that Windows uses their browser to open files like SVG or PDF, and the photos are opened with 3-4 different applications. Some video files, like WEBM, seem not to render properly on Windows (the aspect ratio seemed wrong). TROMjaro opened all of the files with just a few default apps, except one specific Windows document file that it tried to open with the wrong application and it rendered it in a bad way. But, LibreOffice managed to open that file perfectly fine. Overall, out of the box, TROMjaro rates excellent at dealing with most common file-types.
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First thing that users may do on their Operating System is to deal with their files. Maybe they have documents, photos, videos, music, and so forth and they simply want to interact with them. Open, do simple editing, galleries and such. I chose a few of the most popular files to see how these two Operating Systems can deal with them. What apps do they use to open them? And can they open all of the files?
Read the entire article here tromjaro.com/tromjaro-vs-windows-the-defaults
The default Windows installation failed to open most of the document files and one of the files that it opened, it did not render it properly. Windows also failed to play a FLV video file and an OGG audio file. On top of that Windows uses their browser to open files like SVG or PDF, and the photos are opened with 3-4 different applications. Some video files, like WEBM, seem not to render properly on Windows (the aspect ratio seemed wrong). TROMjaro opened all of the files with just a few default apps, except one specific Windows document file that it tried to open with the wrong application and it rendered it in a bad way. But, LibreOffice managed to open that file perfectly fine. Overall, out of the box, TROMjaro rates excellent at dealing with most common file-types.
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