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IOW, not "the super-engineer, an idealised and imaginary extension of the Unix hackers of the era that gave birth to Unix, GNU, and finally Linux."

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In my mind, it's a much better engineered solution to have a centralized, repeatable set of configurations than to have them spread out wherever in the filesystem.

Whenever I hear "centralized configurations" I think of the Registry and shudder. But the issue there isn't the centralization, so it's probably unfair.

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