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    [–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

    Unpopular opinion: The Windows Registry, a centralized, strongly typed key:value database for application settings, is actually superior to hundreds of individual dotfiles, each one written in its own janky customized DSL, with its own idea of where it should live in the file system, etc.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

    Which is why I prefer NixOS (I use NixOS btw)

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)
    [–] excitingburp 6 points 9 months ago

    The language itself has no type enforcement, the type checking is implemented within nixpkgs. This might seem like pedantry, but it really matters for things like LSPs (text editor autocomplete). I think that's what scares some people off: it's like OG Minecraft, you need to have the wiki/search.nixos.org open while you are doing your editing.

    That being said, the type checking goes much deeper than what the windows registry does - e.g. it won't allow you to enable conflicting services - like grub and systemd-boot - at the same time.

    [–] xenoclast 4 points 9 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

    I agreee with you on the side of the concept, but the way it is organised and the potential values seem to make no intuitive sense (if they make any)

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

    In gnome there's dconf

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    That is true.

    But, due to the nature of how it works, it can be also used to hide data that the user "should not be aware of".

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    So can a dotfile, or any other kind of storage. There's really nothing inherently bad about the registry. Its reputation as a place to hide things in is equal parts selection bias, users' lack of technical understanding, and the marketing of "registry cleaner" apps.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

    But... it is a place to hide things 🤨.

    I won't argue about leftovers when uninstallig, some package managers do that as well, plus it's not really the registry's fault, that's just bad or badly configured installers/uninstallers.