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Re:My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore by somat on Saturday June 22, 2024 @03:25AM (#40757140)
That is the paradox of the registry. It sounds like a great idea. "all your config in on place" "structured data" but in practice, I have found it sort of sucks.

I am not sure why this is. My best guess is it unpleasant to use because now you have two trees. only one has all the nice tooling and the other is sort of second class and can only be accessed via special mechanisms.

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Re:My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Saturday June 22, 2024 @07:25AM (#40758180)
Honestly, I think it would have been better if the following was true:

1. it was portable 2. it was well documented ( I absolutely hated that I was finding out about some magical way of enabling something by putting magic string somewhere from a magazine ) -- all those options should be available for me to peruse. I am not even suggesting third party software, just Windows.

But I agree, somehow this idea seems better on paper than in practice.

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