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lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I know what the point is. It sucks.

Firstly they still have the control panel.

For now

Secondly they are slowly transitioning everything relevant from the control panel to the settings app.

The settings app is half-baked dog shit.

Thirdly even having everything in the control panel didn’t make it easy to find exactly what you wanted.

It was certainly easier than the current state of things.

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.

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.

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FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

For now

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.

The settings app is half-baked dog shit.

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?

It was certainly easier than the current state of things.

What was easier to find in the control panel than it is in settings?

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

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.

and it’s not running in the background bogging down your system all the time

You’ve never actually used windows 11, have you?

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- lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  What is “half baked dog shit” about it?
  
  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.
  
  What was easier to find in the control panel than it is in settings?
  
  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.
  
  You’ve never actually used windows 11, have you?
  
  I use it every day on my work PC. It runs like ass.
  
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  - TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Correction: they’ve been doing it since Windows 8 came out.
    
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    lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Totally forgot Windows 8. We skipped it because of how shitty it was.
    
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    visnae@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Wasn’t it vista that started to hide things in the control panel?
    
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  - FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨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.
    
    I’ve already been over this, as have MS many times.
    
    There’s no excuse to have it be half assed for so long especially considering “Settings” isn’t even an improvement.
    
    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.
    
    Literally everything? You don’t have to click through 14 different menus to drill down to what you’re looking for.
    
    Got any examples of this? Settings are generally at most 3 levels deep from the main settings screen.
    
    Just look at Devices and Printers in Control Panel vs. Devices in settings
    
    What am I looking at? The “Bluetooth & Devices” settings page is good. What’s wrong with it?
    
    It runs like ass.
    
    It’s not even debatable that it’s the most performant windows ever lol.
    
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