https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19182
--- Comment #82 from Artem S. Tashkinov t.artem@mailcity.com --- (In reply to liquider from comment #81)
Why override defaults when right-clicking to Open with ... is easy enough?
Simply installing Wine hijacks tens of associations, all of which are abysmal and not trivial to revert in batch.
Wine already has a solution for this issue in a form of Crossover Office. Alexander Julliard just doesn't feel like open sourcing it. If you write an actual patch which allows to choose what Windows associations need to propagate to your Linux profile it might be merged.