> a lá *nix Windows is not UNIX, we ought to keep it that way. Its object-oriented model is in many ways better than UNIX's everything-is-text-or-a-bunch-of-by

> a lá *nix Windows is not UNIX, we ought to keep it that way. Its object-oriented model is in many ways better than UNIX's everything-is-text-or-a-bunch-of-bytes model. > if critical OS configuration was done either via text files Ah, please, no. On Linux today we have a terrible jumble of configuration files in .conf, .ini, .yaml, .toml, even .json and .xml... IMO the Windows Registry was a fantastic way to store settings, and Microsoft should return its usage. It's not like Linux distro don't have something similar in systemd...