“Everything is a file” is what made me start understanding linux few years ago and from there it got easier to use with each new concept.
Still this was really revolutionary to me when I first heard it. Made a bunch of things just click.
“Everything is a file” is what made me start understanding linux few years ago and from there it got easier to use with each new concept.
Still this was really revolutionary to me when I first heard it. Made a bunch of things just click.
Mind you, the registry is also just a couple of files that are shown to the user as “the registry”. IIRC, on Windows, go into the user account’s root folder, and you’ll have NTUSER.dat. That’s the HKCU hive for that user.
And that’s precisely the difference. In both cases the configuration is data stored on disk but Linux presents it as files while Windows presents it as a registry tree. In Windows, you’re not supposed to edit the registry by interacting with NTUSER.dat as a file.