Re: The problem With Windows

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

On 23 Mar 2024 21:12:28 GMT, rbowman wrote:
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On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 05:51:01 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

The Registry was introduced as a replacement for config files because
app developers were scattering those files all over the place. So in an
effort to tidy things up, Microsoft devised this thing called the
“Registry” and strong-armed developers into using it.
 
So now, they scatter their config settings all over the Registry.

 
That was a Good Idea for a while.

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No it wasn’t. Replacing one form of clutter with another was pointless,
and replacing text config files with a binary format was a really dumb
idea.
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The right thing to do would have been to enforce something like the Linux
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, where system config files go into /etc and
other writable system data into /var, with each package/subsystem using
its own file/directory names to keep things separate.

FreeBSD is even more strict.  Only system stuff goes into /usr.
Any application installed by the user goes into /usr/local.  I like
that.

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