β² 957 βΌ What y'all talking about? (mastodon.ml) submitted 2 years ago by drq@mastodon.ml to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 125 comments fedilink hide all child comments What y'all talking about? @linuxmemes
[β] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 27 points 2 years ago (2 children) Nothing wrong with the Registry It's a different way of handling things compared to how Linux (and most unixes) does it with 18391823 text files But it's a perfectly functional and sensible solution for storing system configurations. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [β] lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago (3 children) The registery is much easier to break, much harder to debug and much harder to fix, UNIX config is more human-friendly, I'll never mess with the registery again permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [β] anon5621@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago Also add that registry exponantionally growing over time bad documented and not easy way to clean it up and thus as time going windows start booting up longer and longer permalink fedilink source parent [β] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago In theory having a database of configuration settings isn't a horrible idea. But the execution was terrible. permalink fedilink source parent [β] Lightfire228@pawb.social 1 point 1 year ago* The technology behind the registry is fine (which is what I think @VinesNFluff meant) But it's execution in Windows was ass In theory, a configuration manager with DB-like abilities (to maintain relationships, schematic integrity, and to abstract the file storage details), isn't a bad idea But the registry as it is today is pure pain permalink fedilink source parent [+] westyvw@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[β] lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago (3 children) The registery is much easier to break, much harder to debug and much harder to fix, UNIX config is more human-friendly, I'll never mess with the registery again permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [β] anon5621@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago Also add that registry exponantionally growing over time bad documented and not easy way to clean it up and thus as time going windows start booting up longer and longer permalink fedilink source parent [β] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago In theory having a database of configuration settings isn't a horrible idea. But the execution was terrible. permalink fedilink source parent [β] Lightfire228@pawb.social 1 point 1 year ago* The technology behind the registry is fine (which is what I think @VinesNFluff meant) But it's execution in Windows was ass In theory, a configuration manager with DB-like abilities (to maintain relationships, schematic integrity, and to abstract the file storage details), isn't a bad idea But the registry as it is today is pure pain permalink fedilink source parent
[β] anon5621@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago Also add that registry exponantionally growing over time bad documented and not easy way to clean it up and thus as time going windows start booting up longer and longer permalink fedilink source parent
[β] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago In theory having a database of configuration settings isn't a horrible idea. But the execution was terrible. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Lightfire228@pawb.social 1 point 1 year ago* The technology behind the registry is fine (which is what I think @VinesNFluff meant) But it's execution in Windows was ass In theory, a configuration manager with DB-like abilities (to maintain relationships, schematic integrity, and to abstract the file storage details), isn't a bad idea But the registry as it is today is pure pain permalink fedilink source parent
[+] westyvw@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
