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I have no objections to sharing it. It is on my TODO list to someday make my general linux environment available somewhere for others to learn from. Modern linux tends to have a lot of design decisions that benefit less proficient users at the expense of people that can program. I'm not complaining, there are good reasons to make it accessible to non-programmers, but it does mean that it can do with a lot of customization to suit a programmer.
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Sure, I have a long list of customizations I do on windows systems as well, when I find myself on one. The thing I like about linux, however, is that linux configuration is very maintainable. I can replicate my personal linux environment on a new linux machine in a few minutes by simply running a few commands. I find automation/replicability of that kind much harder on windows. Similarly, when I decide to change some aspect of my personal environment, perhaps using new software or a different configuration, the changes are very easy to replicate on all my linux machines, instantly.
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I've been spending the summer learning more about linux; finally with my own machine to play with -- it's been a lot of fun and so easy to make sweeping changes. I started off just by copying over from a flashdrive some of the dotfiles I cobbled together since a few years ago on the school computers, and a huge chunk of everything was already done. Saved me hours of effort. Mostly -- it's just so easy to figure out where settings are stored on linux. No registry garbage. |
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The whole point of the Windows registry is that it brings all configuration information together in one place. Much better than the older system of having a hundred ".ini" files spread out all over the system.
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There are hundreds of megabytes of %APPDATA% that proves you wrong...
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Does Linux make no distinction between application data files and configuration settings? Forgive the question: my knowledge of Linux is sketchy. |
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It depends on which configuration files. Everything (pretty much) in Linux is fa file. Some configuration files are specific to the service or program they are for, but they are still just files. Normally, if a configuration has an interactive menu-type system to change configuration, you can also just edit the configuration file, although often you have to restart the application to get it to reread the file.
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True, but as its name implies it is for applications and NOT for Windows itself. The vast bulk of the Windows OS level configuration is in the Registry.
Back in the day when I worked for the old Macromedia, I has a set of INF files to reconfigure new Windows installations. I very frequently had to setup a new OS installation and these made the core of personalizing the installation nearly painless. I've not built one in recent years, but they can easily be created. |
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