If it was that easy, MS would drop it years ago. Unluckily it's the core of Windows systems, and just deleting it (which would be hard by itself, because you would have to rewrite every little function to work in a different manner - tons of time) would stop all the programs and games from working - so "registry emulator" would be required, therefore at after releasing registry-free windows, old apps would run much slower that they used to be. Deleting registry will be slow and painful process, but it will have to happen someday. Not tomorrow. Not next year. Time, Dr. Freeman.believer258 said:Forgive me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it make sense for Microsoft just to drop the Registry idea? I'm not sure if it's absolutely needed, but I don't think it is. Here's to hoping the next version only has a registry for older stuff, and new stuff doesn't need it!theriddlen said:Truth.
I am user of all three systems (Macbook Pro+Homemade PC), and they all got huge problems.
Snow Leopard - Damn thing crashes very often. Maybe it's not the bluescreen, but there's no real difference - just a spinning ball, and freezed computer to restart. Problems with handling NTFS files, crashes 30 percent of times when i copy something to external memory of any kind. And my printer doesn't work there.
Linux 10.4 - Although it haven't crashed (but it may be because i don't spend much time there), there are many problems with programs, installing things is hell, and there are no noteworthy substitutes for many essential osx/windows apps. Working there requires knowing command line.
Windows 7 - Unluckily for this comparison i had to think a lot to find something bad. Just as Linux, when used normally, it does not crash anymore (last bluescreen i remember was in Release Candidate version, during installing of beta drivers), but when you make too much mess it will slow down - registry still present.
As for linux, it doesn't crash but damn if it isn't useful for anything but internet service and general fucking around. It isn't even good for fucking around, there isn't enough fun stuff to fuck around with.
Linux... unluckily you are completely right, there isn't even a good music player like iTunes. There are no spreadsheets from Excel, there are no iMovie movies, and worst, there are no games. Thats why this system is used on almost all servers - core functions stable as hell, but nothing besides.