“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.
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.