>> But the critical question is... Can you configure them all from the GUI?
>> Or do you have to edit some 25-mile text file?
> 
> No more often than Windows settings need to be tweaked in the registry 
> these days, in my experience.

Generally, you only need to tweak the registry for very obscure settings 
that almost nobody will ever need to touch.

Unix software, on the other hand, seems to regard giant text files (all 
with a completely different format) as the *primary* means of 
configuration, and a GUI as secondary to that.

Windows software tends to regard the GUI as the primary way to 
configure. And if there isn't a button for it, it's probably just not 
editable at all.

And look at Mozilla Firefox. There's an options box, but there are 
seemingly millions of extra config entries that aren't listed there. 
(They do at least provide a reasonable UI for editing these...)

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