The last time finding settings in Windows was straight forward was Windows 95. Since the stupid dumbed down ‘settings’ app was vomited upon us, it has been nearly impossible to find the thing you know is there but has now been renamed and removed and isn’t indexed in the settings app search bar.
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FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ah Christ. We’ve collectively regressed so much in computer knowledge that people can’t even find a settings menu? Even I have trouble believing that one.
smeenz@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The registry never has and never will be. Windows is rotten to the core.
smeenz@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Have you tried to configure gnome beyond what is offered in its GUI ?
Mesophar@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
The reasoning I moved from Windows to Linux was this right here.
If I’m going to be fighting with Windows anyway, because of the registry giving me issues, then the drawback of “but Linux hard! You have to configure things!” was moot.
FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
No, I’m a happy i3wm user.
Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Just to be the devil’s advocate here: There are way more settings now than back then. That interface wouldn’t cut it either.
TeddE@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The problem isn’t the new coat of paint - it’s more that Microsoft keeps painting half the building then starting over for the new OS. It’s frustrating that the key to finding a setting is knowing when it was developed to know which UI you need to be digging through.
Taleya@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Even on 11 hit winkey+r then type in CONTROL
utopiah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not convinced the number matter as much if settings are indexed and thus searchable.
utopiah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Same vibe lemmy.world/post/29256164/16922503
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
kinda fair considering windows has like 20 control panels that should all do the same thing but at the end of the day you still need to use regedit.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
The problem that i cant find the setting, or it’s in a different app or intentionally cant be changed easily. I want to limit my battery to charge only when below 30%; but i cant do that in battery or power settings. I want to disable some “feature” where windows randomly adds a new keybord layout to windows, but this is not a setting but seems to be a bug. I want to completely disable usb- or lan-wakeup, but despite changing settings in the device manager my desktop is sometimes turned on in the morning after i set it to hibernate the night before. I dont want one-drive or cloud, but this is also not a setting but a design decision by the MS marketing department to make money with their half-baked cloud solutions.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Disabling wol and USB is usually a bios-level setting. Everything else is windows being shite.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Tired that as well, no luck.
Aeri@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, there’s the small issue of Windows now having control panel the settings app and some shitty third thing sprinkled in there somewhere. There are some things that should have settings but don’t. You can no longer simply disable Windows update on your own, because Microsoft has decided they know best.
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Which one Windows has multiple 😅
helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I unironically had a friend who hated Linux Mint for awhile because he believed for YEARS you always double click applications in the task bar like you would on your desktop. When he switched he was so furious how apps would crash and/or just not start until I told him “dude… just click it once”
I have no idea how this didn’t happen on Windows or how he never had something open up twice
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
You know that windows 10 still has the original control panel hidden deep in there.
Why do that
Biyoo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Finding settings in Windows is pretty hard