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[–] Honytawk 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Of course not, we need to be able to store the huge amount of detailed settings in a OS somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Linux does with .conf files and directories which is kinda the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

GNOME has their own version of a registry, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I hate dconf too

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

dconf enters the chat

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

dconf is way easier than Windows Registry though. I've only ever had to touch it to enable pre-release settings.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

in a registry though? maybe the registry in windows is so hard to work with and automate that it is the reason that Linux took all of windows market share for computers that do work (everything but desktops)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

??? Ms never had a large server market share. Linux took over unix in the server market.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You don't have to use it, there's app data folders now.