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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by nikau on Saturday July 30, 2022 @02:29AM (#32284775)
And at least in unix you can quickly ripgrep through the usual home and /etc/ directories looking for something, whereas searching in regedit takes forever for some reason.
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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by pjmlp on Saturday July 30, 2022 @03:12AM (#32284958)
The FOSS clones people use are stuck in a past before big boys UNIXes took over.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.1?topic=subsystem-device-c...

https://docstore.mik.ua/manuals/hp-ux/en/5992-4616/ch01s01.h...

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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by nikau on Sunday July 31, 2022 @08:44AM (#32295145)
Ahh yes the big boy UNIXes that are on life support for the few remaining stragglers willing to pay massive support contracts on legacy systems.
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