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@@ -169,9 +169,9 @@ There's no reason you can't mount an internal or external drive to store files,
.. _Puppy Linux: http://puppylinux.org/
.. _running from a RAM disk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions_that_run_from_RAM
Very little hardware comes a `desktop version of Linux pre-installed`_,
Very little hardware comes with a `desktop version of Linux pre-installed`_,
so live versions of Linux tend to work very well,
since that is the most common method of installing it.
since that is the almost always the way it is installed.
.. _desktop version of Linux pre-installed: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuPre-installed
@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ since each user's configuration is isolated to his or her home directory.
Centralized databases like the Windows Registry are usually unnecessary for configuration.
Applications for which text files are a bad choice,
e.g. ones which need to store huge amounts of data or must use atomic updates,
e.g. ones which need random access to large amounts of structured data or which require atomic updates,
can use, for example, `an SQLite database`_ in the user's home directory.
In a similar vein, the GNOME desktop provides `dconf`_, which is probably the closest thing to a Windows Registry that Linux has.