Secondly they are slowly transitioning everything relevant from the control panel to the settings app.
Emphasis on the “slowly”. It’s been four years!!
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FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day agoMisses the point.
Firstly they still have the control panel.
Secondly they are slowly transitioning everything relevant from the control panel to the settings app.
Thirdly even having everything in the control panel didn’t make it easy to find exactly what you wanted.
This makes it so you can just say “set my power profile to balanced” and it would do so. That’s a nice, welcome addition.
helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 15 hours ago
Yeah, emphasis on slowly - because that is how it has been planned. They’re slowly rolling out the changes to prevent another Windows 8 type backlash.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Bullshit to all those points. If you can’t find it in the control panel, you sure as shit can’t find it now.
Also, they’ve been “slowly” transitioning for over two years, wtf? We waiting for the next OS at this point?
I don’t NOT need voice activation, I know how to use a keyboard and mouse, the core components of a computer.
You want to use your voice, talk to your mom cause I’m done with her.
j/k on the mom part
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
If you couldnt find it in the control panel before, you sure as shit cant find it now.
Oh you’ve tried this new AI Agent that can change the settings for you, have you?
Bullshit to all those points.
Which points are “bullshit”? That they’re slowly moving everything out of the control panel to the settings app? This is literally what they’ve been telling us they’re doing, and what we’ve seen them do.
That they still have the control panel? Nope, not bullshit, it’s still there.
That being able to ask Copilot to change a setting would be helpful? How is that bullshit?
I do NOT need voice activation
Good thing it’s not MANDATORY then. You can keep using your mouse and keyboard. Also you don’t have to use your VOICE for copilot - it’s much easier to use the mouse and keyboard. That’s how most people use it.
Also, they’ve been “slowly” transitioning for over two years, wtf? We waiting for the next OS at this point?
This stuff takes time unfortunately. If they change everything at once they get even more anger and pushback. This way it’s just a slow and easy move away from the control panel - 1 thing here, 2 things there, and before you know it hey look! Everything is in the settings app now!
Oh good mum joke big fella! So clever and badarse.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’d rather they spend time fixing all the things their “working on” rather that introduct more half baked shit into the os for fucks sake. There is a huge list of things that keep people from upgrading so instead they said “now you have to”. Fuck that.
Fuck windows. They had a great thing going with Windows, then the reneged. They said windows 10 was going to be the last major OS for windows. How do we trust anything from Microsoft now?
now it’s going to cause people to trash their working device because it’s only 7th gen and doesn’t have TPM 2.0. greedy little piggies who want to track their users and throw privacy out the window.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
now it’s going to cause people to trash their working device because it’s only 7th gen and doesn’t have TPM 2.0
No one is going to do this lol.
cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Cant argue with a Linux user, just leave
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m a windows user, but I can call shit when I see shit.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I know what the point is. It sucks.
For now
The settings app is half-baked dog shit.
It was certainly easier than the current state of things.
Sure assuming the AI understands your request and the setting you want hasn’t been removed because they wanted to put everything in the settings app and the one you wanted conflicts with their data gathering and add presentation.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
Yes, for now. I even said as much, because Microsoft have made their plans on getting rid of it very clear and open. It’s slowly being replaced by moving everything to the settings app.
You could say that it’s slowly getting all the features added to it, couldn’t you? What is “half baked dog shit” about it?
What was easier to find in the control panel than it is in settings?
You think that the AI would not have access and knowledge of the settings app? They made no mention of the AI Agents only being able to make changes in the control panel.
You’ve never actually used windows 11, have you?
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 day ago
The fact that they’re moving things over slowly instead of just fucking finishing it before they deploy it all at once. They’ve been doing this since Windows 10 came out, they have a trillion dollars. There’s no excuse to have it be half assed for so long especially considering “Settings” isn’t even an improvement.
Literally everything? You don’t have to click through 14 different menus to drill down to what you’re looking for. It’s all on one window in Control Panel. Just look at Devices and Printers in Control Panel vs. Devices in settings or Programs and Features vs. Apps and features the newer versions have far less information available at a glance.
I use it every day on my work PC. It runs like ass.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Correction: they’ve been doing it since Windows 8 came out.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
I’ve already been over this, as have MS many times.
Making any change to legacy systems in Windows is a massive risk and requires a lot of work. Win32 for example isn’t good and should have been removed a loooooong time ago, but here we are still with it.
Got any examples of this? Settings are generally at most 3 levels deep from the main settings screen.
What am I looking at? The “Bluetooth & Devices” settings page is good. What’s wrong with it?
It’s not even debatable that it’s the most performant windows ever lol.