Microsoft president admits they were wrong on open source

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: furaxhornyxI do not fully agree with the "you can still easily mount your physical drives [...]", since I recently change a dead hard drive and it took me a good 20 minutes to figure out how to mount it to /games and have it recognized after a reboot...

You don't even need to fiddle with config files (like /etc/fstab), there's tools for it in the KDE system settings or as Gnome "discs" (not 100% sure about the name). So, I still think it's easy to mimic what Windows does if you find it superior.

Yes, I did use Discs, but for some reason, I could not mount my drive to /games ; it was only mounted is /mnt/strangeUUIDHere, so in the end I just went into /etc/fstab.
Under Windows, a new disk just get mapped to the next available letter. I do find this easy.

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: furaxhornyxStill, you can also mount drives or partitions in Windows as folders, too, so you are not limited to 26 mounted drives either.

Yes, some decades after Unix/Linux, Windows did adopt the possibility AFAIR. (Probably not because drive letters are better, BTW.) But if you're happier with letters, you're still stuck with 26 of them.

Yes ; but the original post I replied to (and this is something I have seen in several places, nothing personal against anyone) implied that the letters were a Windows issue. If anything, it just look like an option (which is used by default) in addition to mounting partitions to folders.

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: furaxhornyxAlso, If I want to make a backup of my system "/", I am not sure if all my "/home" and "/games" content will be copied too (resulting in a huge backup file, I guess). With letters for separate partitions, I find it easier.

If you want to make a backup, you need to know what you want to copy and where that is. Which is even harder on a modern Windows. Did you know that Windows merges directories "behind the curtain" and shows them as a single one to you? How would you copy that and restore it a similar way?

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Exactly. On Windows, you just use the provided backup tool, and it's done (and yes I am aware of the merged directories). So, I don't see any Windows issues here. Things are just done differently.

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: furaxhornyxUnless you have a specific "program X" in mind, I do not know know of any program which configuration is stored in the registry ? Usually the files are within the program folder directly, or in My documents folder (equivalent to /home).

I don't have statistics here, but I think many programs store stuff in the registry. You can try with a handful if you like and search for their name in the registry. You might be surprised... But when you say "usually the files are within the program folder directly, or in My documents folder (equivalent to /home)" - how is this less scattered than /etc/?

To be fair, when I spoke about scattered files, I had one specific example in my head: Pulseaudio (and soundcard) configuration.
According to various information I have found (but have not yet implemented successfully), these are the files that would need to be edited:
- /etc/pulse/default.pa
- /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/profile-sets/native-instruments-komplete-audio6.conf
- some other location, which I remember included something ending in ".d", but the exact reference is probably in one of the several bookmarks I made while trying to fix the issue.

And you also mentionned /etc/Xapp, which I had not heard of (yet). This is what I call "scattered".
On Windows, those files would probably be located in something like %ProgramFiles%\Pulseaudio\ , or %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\Pulseaudio\

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: furaxhornyxI still have some program that I used in the late 90s, made for Windows 98, that I can still use without reinstalling anything, and despite changing / reinstalling / changing Windows version (and hard drives) over the years. And if you really need the registry part, it can be exported quite easily.

If you know that it exists in the first place, if it actually is a single place, ... Hardly easier than copying /etc/Xapp, is it?

Hardly easier, hardly harder. But again, in reply to people thinking that the registry is an issue, I am not sure why ?

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: furaxhornyxSo, in all fairness, I am not sure as how those different behaviours qualify as issues on the Windows side.

Please don't take it personally, but to me it seems more a matter of "I don't know how to"/"I'm not accustomed to it" - which is all ok, but not really Linux' fault. (Neither yours, everybody was new to everything at some point of time.)

I do not take it personally ;)
I am not saying that Windows is better than Linux (that would be the wrong site to do this :P ), but that I do not think than free-bashing Windows on what appears to me as non-issues (things are just being done differently) is helpful to anyone.

Now, if we are going to speak about embedded spywares...