The state of Windows in 2017

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>>60188877
The state of Windows in 1992

great thread

>>60188877
>>60188885

Why do you continue to use pajeet os that still based on windows 3.1?

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>Been on Linux for about a year
>Still have PTSD from the windows registry

after about 15 years of using Windows, the one time I had to use the registry was to tweak my realtek driver once.

Non-issue

>>60189007
>linux has hidden settings and flags and shit too, somewhere

>there's no easy, searchable place to find them all

Registry isn't that bad, honestly

>>60189049
well there's the tweak tools which have a hilariously similar structure to the registry

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>>60189007
>>60189049
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>60189049

What are man pages?

>>60188877
Please explain what is actually the matter with the Windows Registry?

>>60189069
>What are man pages?
not a unified settings tool

>>60189077
>Please explain what is actually the matter with the Windows Registry?
instead of allowing programs to store their settings in their own directory, winshit forces them all in the windows registry, and they don't get properly removed when the program is uninstalled. so every time you try out a program and uninstall it you're adding more trash to the windows registry.

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>>60189007
Gnome's dconf

>>60189182
>>60189007
During gnome3 transition and early days of mate there were actually three concurrent registry-like settings storages just for various gtk-based applications

the registry isn't so bad, and certainly not abnormal. i'm a long-time lignux user, but of-course have spent a shit ton of time on windows, os x, and even beos. programs leave shit all over the place on all operating systems. os x has plist files and config directories galore. lignux has a seemingly endless stack of text-based configuration files under the root directory, nested throughout numerous directories, and gnome-based DEs use dconf and/or gconf, which very much resemble the windows registry. beos had its own mountains of configuration datastores as well.