that being said OSX's defaults system is IMO far better than the windows registry. You set your defaults once, using the terminal, and it all migrates over to y

that being said OSX's defaults system is IMO far better than the windows registry. You set your defaults once, using the terminal, and it all migrates over to your other / next generation macs using migration assistant, which can be really fast over thunderbolt. It's a long time since I had to deal with basic settings like this. There's also nothing rotting underneath - I can go and delete / rename userland settings from any app anytime I want and set it back to factory. Basically Unix, but consistent over all native apps.