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AFAIK, many Windows apps traditionally tend to use the registry for storing their configs. Which I believe is a similarly odd and foreign idea to most Linux users. On the other hand, before there was the Registry, there were .INI files on Windows too, so kinda similar like dotfiles.


The registry is also just some file or database somewhere in the end.




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