![]() ![]() Nearly all configuration files are in one of two places, /etc or dot folders in the root of my home folder. You are a little wrong there about Linux. ini files and something still unmatched in the Mac or Linux worlds with config in arbitrary locations and formats (which, incidentally, let anyone write anything anywhere in a similar fashion). What other critical system database lets anything write to anywhere at any time? Smart, guys, smart.)Ī huge improvement on the previous. The solution, obviously, is to just have a damn cache of these somewhere ELSE on the system (but not the registry, because the registry was one of the worst software ideas OF ALL TIME. Hating aside, Windows being not open-source really hurts when you're trying to fix/debug something - you can tail the error logs until the cows come home, but unless you're a Microsoft developer, it'll probably be pretty opaque (OSX is sometimes bad about this too - ever have fun with KEXT bingo?) ![]() Really the only thing it has going for it would be "it's popular", so it's likely that someone else also had error 0x8BADF00D and knew how to fix it. Going back to Windows after OSX or Linux is pretty awful, honestly. It's trying to have the "sane defaults" of OSX with the configurability of Linux, but the architecture is all stupid and you get error codes in hexidecimal that say "an unknown error has occurred!". Windows - the "bloated swiss army knife". Fedora 16 is my current weapon of choice for work/dev. Linux (new-school) - trying to be like OSX with the "sane defaults just works in most cases" but also tweak-able as much or as little as you like. Stuff adheres to philosophical standards and POSIX. Linux (old-school) - made for users who care about the details and will take days or weeks to set up their system. OSX - supposed to be simple to use and the defaults are supposed to "just work" and make sense to most people (drag an "icon" to the "trash" to "uninstall" it made no sense to me) ![]() Windows has always had more configuration than OSX. ![]()
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