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   From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   Brock McNuggets wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
      
   > On Jan 20, 2026 at 7:50:03 AM MST, "candycanearter07" wrote   
   > :   
   >   
   >> Brock McNuggets  wrote at 06:06 this Sunday   
   (GMT):   
   >>> On Jan 17, 2026 at 10:27:14 PM MST, "Gremlin" wrote   
   >>> :   
   >>>   
   >>>> Brock McNuggets    
   >>>> news:696c2034$1$20$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:50:12   
   >>>> GMT in comp.os.linux.advocacy, wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> On Jan 17, 2026 at 3:47:39 PM MST, "Gremlin" wrote   
   >>>>> :   
   >> [snip]   
   >>>>>>  MS was actively discouraging the use of .INI files   
   >>>>>> from Windows 95. They wanted you using the centralized registry   
   >>>>>> instead.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Yes... what a pain.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It could be if you weren't very familiar with it.   
   >>>   
   >>> I prefer the INI or stand alone preferences system. Especially when they   
   are   
   >>> stored in a logical location they make troubleshooting easier.   
   >>   
   >> I honestly never really got the registry. For system settings, fine, I can   
   >> get wanting to use a binary format like that. For user options, it just   
   >> makes it harder to access, change, backup, etc... and is inherently not   
   >> cross-platform.   
   >   
   > Agreed.   
   >   
   >> The only benefit I can think of would be having   
   >> persistent user settings, and that can easily be achieved by storing   
   >> user settings in %AppData% and/or not deleting it with the built in   
   >> uninstaller.   
   >> [snip]   
   >   
   > I like how macOS does it... a Preferences folder with files. Apple has   
   changed   
   > it a bit so it is cached which might help in some ways but makes   
   > troubleshooting a bit harder. Not exactly sure how Linux does it.   
      
   It can vary, but in general: sample config files reside in   
   /usr/share/appname, the system-wide config file reside in   
   /etc/appname, user-specific overrides of the configuration are in   
   /home/username/.config/appname or are stored as "rc" or "conf"   
   files whose names start with ".".   
      
   User-specific/app-specific state files (settings) are in   
   /home/user/.local/share/appname ... or somewhere thereabouts :-D.   
      
   Arch Linux has slightly different conventions, a bit like   
   FreeBSD's.   
      
   It's a bit krufty from having been built up over the years, but   
   one gets used to it, just as one gets used to Window's Registry   
   and the locations for 32 vs 64-bit Registry entries.   
      
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