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I'll take the Windows Registry over an OS that litters my home directory with dot files, or even simply force me to create my own format of saving my settings (even ~/.settings is barely an improvement).

Saving your settings should be an API offered by the OS and the Windows Registry is pretty good at that.

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Have you looked in a Windows user's home directory?

What does this question have to do with the existence of the Windows Registry API?

Because you said that you’d take an OS with a registry over one with dotfiles, and his point is that these days you have both

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