Have you ever used Secure Shell to access a remote machine, only to find yourself needing to download a file from a remote location? What do you do? Since you only have terminal window access to that ...

The next quarterly Android 16 update will significantly improve file access for the Linux Terminal app. Currently, the Linux virtual machine is limited to accessing only the phone’s Downloads folder.

Linux typically doesn't rely on file extensions; it gets a files type using "magic numbers" within the file itself. Linux apps, including GNOME Files, may still use extensions to determine file type.