Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> Windows has both of those. :-)

Of course.  But registry simply kills it in the name of ease for users, at the
expense of making it difficult and annoying to "fine-tune" your system.

> The registry is just a more general solution.

Is it really worth the pain?  At work we use Delphi and now and then when we
have to install or update plugins it's always a terrible annoyance involving
manual and stupid registry editing.  The GUI is supposed to hide details away
and make the structure stand out of anything but in the end it just comes in
the way.  Apparently, you can't copy registry keys around with ease or remove
them at will without first.  It's a painful step-by-step procedure.  To call
that "ease of use" is a joke.

Ease of use is to simply go /searchthis, edit it in whatever way you like, copy
it around as many times you want and delete it with a simple dd.  Nothing like
a plain list of key=value strings...

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