Terminal > Windows Registry.
this post was submitted on 14 May 2024
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That's even more complicated than half the stuff normal users on Linux do
I have been using Linux for more than 15 years and would consider myself a semi-advanced user, but that thing in the screenshot - it scares me.
It is nothing but opening regedit, going to the path described in the text, and adding a variable with a certain name and value.
It can even be done by a single powershell command line.
I'm starting to think Linux users like yourself aren't as technologically capable as you guys claim you are.
Spread the word! Linux is easy to use and for everyone!
Why do that when you can just use a GUI?
KDE plasma 6 has a GUI setting for the equivalent feature.
Registry editor is a gui tho
A terrible one that's basically a weird file browser for binary data and crap.
True, but one could say the same about terminal in Linux lol, I know it's gotten a lot better, but I remember many times having to edit archaic settings via terminal commands because of weird driver issues, don't even get me started on trying to fix GRUB entries lol
The registry is worse. They maliciously hide basic settings and leave you to figure it out without any documentation.
The terminal is actually consistent, Grub entries are consistent and have documentation, editing plain text is way better than manipulating binary data with a jank tool.
I guarantee that most Windows users, including the techy type, had no clue that the feature described in my post was even possible or existed. Point is, this is not a system level setting, it's a basic setting that can easily be done with a simple GUI checkbox/button/switch just as KDE plasma has done. Window's hiding it, not only inside the registry, but even hiding it from the registry as an unmarked option with 0 documention, is utterly ridiculous.
Is maliciously hiding it any different functionally for an end user compared to having to look up the setting/command needed to modify a setting?
I am a techy windows/Linux user and I just have used winaero tweaker to disable all the junk (since back on win 7)
Im glad KDE plasma and Linux in general have been making strides at having more easily accessible options
I will add, I agree with your point in general, just don't think it holds much weight for normies (or even intermediate users) because of the end user experience being functionally the same in many circumstances.
Yes, it is functionally different. Because of
man,-h/--help,tldr, documentation, consistency, etc.The terminal is a consistent and predictable tool that you are given every needed resource to able to learn and use. To find out what a command does is easy and you don't need internet to do it. Plus, the terminal is way more versatile and extensible.
The entire point of the terminal is to empower the user and give a consistent interference to manipulate low-level and high-level settings, features and applications. While the entire point of the registry is to limit & obscure the accessibly of options Microsoft doesn't want you to be able to touch or know about. Nor is it even consistent for that matter, with stuff shuffling around, resetting and being removed during updates. My post is a prime example, they don't want you to be able to disable Bing search because they make money from it, exactly the same reason they actively try preventing you from removing edge.