Actually there is a standard location for user settings: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html https://specifications.fre

Actually there is a standard location for user settings: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-... Dconf complements it: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/dconf https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/dconf and dconf-editor is even similar to regedit. For system settings... that is a bit more complicated.