Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)
&gt; This is a far cry from &#x2F;etc&#x2F;progname.conf in Linux.<p>Some of these arguments are not really in good faith. First, this isn&#x27;t a technical issue with the registry, but with how it&#x27;s been used over the years and never &quot;refactored&quot; - a distinct issue. Second, I dare you to run &quot;ls &#x2F;etc&quot; and claim it&#x27;s not a mess...<p>Besides, most of the post is how anyone with a text editor <i>and admin rights</i> can bork&#x2F;hack the machine. As if someone with admin rights couldn&#x27;t bork&#x2F;hack the machine in a billion ways. Or if someone with admin rights on linux couldn&#x27;t write garbage to &#x2F;dev&#x2F;sda1 and &quot;hide&quot; something from the OS.