Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)
by plonk on Friday July 29, 2022 @05:48PM
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> The bet on "everything is an object" was a honest and competent one, but unfortunately it didn't work. "Everything is a file" works better on practice.
With the right interface, the object approach can be more pleasant to use. Administration via PowerShell is way more consistent than in Bash.
Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)
by TristanBall on Sunday July 31, 2022 @06:55AM
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In what way did it "not work"?
Unless you meant OS/2? My understanding is the original intent there was very much to make everything an object,and the UI fully composable based on that ( in the sense of being able to link things together semi-arbitrarily, like pipes, only they never got that far )
But that's based on a half remembered article from years ago, I may have that completely wrong.
Agree with the other post that PowerShell's object view of the environment is pretty nice - not always a panacea of course, but mostly highly functional and productive
The bet on "everything is an object" was a honest and competent one, but unfortunately it didn't work. "Everything is a file" works better on practice. Unfortunately, that was the last real attempt on Windows to improve things.
Yes, the lack of diversity in OSes is bad. But Windows doesn't fix it. (Android and iOS were the last large attempt of innovation there, and implemented some really good things, but it's also useless to have the OSes completely managed by large corporations that antagonize both their customers and society as a whole.)