Comment by egorfine
3 months ago
It comes down to a philosophy you choose.
I personally think that most of the OS decisions done by Microsoft are wrong and should be killed with fire but also I'm far from thinking bad about the people who made these decisions. Perhaps these decisions make sense from their standpoint given the information they had a time.
On the other hand on Linux I'd really wish for a centralized settings repository like Registry. But not from the systemd crowd, of course.
The registry is /etc
If you want some more structure to it then you'll probably end up with the registry and whatever it is that people hate about it.
IMO it would be enough to put the /etc into git so one can rollback bad changes.
Don't registry get loaded on boot, making it heavier that just being /etc on the hard drive?, also yes, /etc can be view as some sort of registry, but the implementation is different and that's matter
Parts of it do get loaded and unloaded as needed from disk to memory and back to disk. It's certainly not all loaded into memory