Let alone some windows program end up just save a blob in it and totally ignore the typing.
Who care about the field type if I can save everything in a single blob(?
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\BrowserEmulation\ClearableListData]\UserFilter
Er-readying values isn’t done usually with apps.
You can get corrupted files if two instances fight for the same file. If that’s your thing, please use mongo. Also, please provide support to all the users.
Lastly, if you messed up certain configuration or data files, your system won’t boot either on ANY system.
Sounds like you’re just one of many anti-windows people, exactly what was pointed out about people bashing the registry.
You're right, you shouldn't. If you are able to, your distro is very odd and I'd recommend seeking a new one.
> Sounds like you’re just one of many anti-windows people, exactly what was pointed out about people bashing the registry.
There's no need to attack people.
If you absolutely could not write to /etc, then you would never be able to change your password.
The passwd, chsh, chfn, and other utilities allow a non-privileged user to make controlled changes to privileged files via the setuid/gid system calls.
A user can trigger controlled writes to files in /etc.
Since we're talking about Linux, I would refrain from using absolute clauses like "never".
systemd-homed allows you to create "portable" user profiles which contain everything pertaining to a particular user, including his password. So user profiles (including your files, etc) can be moved between computers simply by rsync'ing that directory, or putting it on a network share.
`homectl passwd` (which changes a portable user's password) does not require writable /etc.
I think I've seen a few other solutions like that.
The administrator in this case has an automated tool that handles this requæst but the actual user the writing occurs under is the root user.
Personally, I feel it is the same thing.
I don't believe you can. What distribution is this?
There’s no /etc for users. That’s why we get all these dot.dirs. At least some apps use ~/.config/
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-...
It’s not a choice. It’s the default. It’s like saying it’s a choice to run mongodb without authentication.
Lastly, why should I be using XDG Desktop variables on something that don’t haveA desktop environment?
So? The registry doesn't have much of a way either - the actual fields are simply a loose convention.
> Every application comes up with its own format.
Same with Windows applications - one application might store an IP address as a dotted-octet string, another might store it as a single 32 bit integer.
> Parsing that file is application-specific.
Same for Windows applications; the subtree for any application is very specific to that application and almost always differs from the subtree for other applications.
> Updating a value in a text file means re-writing the whole file again.
Not a problem, when it means that breaking a value in a text file breaks only that one application. Break the registry almost always breaks something else, if not the entire system.
I'm not saying files in /etc aren't without their problems, I'm saying that all /etc problems are already present in the registry, but the registry adds a few more of its own.