Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon

Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You literally can’t.

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    opening new settings will just replace where you just where

    I don’t use windows super often anymore, so I don’t really have that usecase, but man. Just imagining it makes me annoyed and angry

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    • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You probably should never use a Mac then.

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      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        yup. The couple of times I had to use one, the bad UX absolutely annoyed the hell out of me

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      • Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m pretty positive on mac OS, as an OS it’s technically quite good, but their preferences app has always been atrocious almost entirely for this reason, I want to have two preferences windows open to different pages please…

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• superkret@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As admin and tech support, I use the control panel constantly. I use the settings app… for display configuration, I guess?

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• Curdie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not you. There are many things you simply cannot do in the settings app.

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  • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And if you can do it, it’s complicated and convoluted. I miss Win32 settings panels, everything was so well organized and simple to manage.

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• nehal3m@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah the new interface has restrictions it doesn’t tell you about until you try to apply new settings.

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• purplemonkeymad@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can now reach the network connections folder, using an option on the network status page. It’s something like advanced network options. Still all the classic stuff, but avoids “control panel.” I’m going to guess links like that are not going to be removed.

  If they just outright remove all of that, you really will need to learn how to do everything in powershell.

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• s_s@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The goal is to move you to powershell

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• stephen01king@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are you on windows 10 or 11?

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  • Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mostly 11 now. I honestly prefer it to 10 now, but that’s with quite about of decrapification done to remove all of Microsoft’s bullshit.

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    • stephen01king@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hmm, then I’m a bit confused, since my experience with Windows 11 settings app has been good enough to not need to go into the control panel for setting up basic networking, unlike with Windows 10’s setting app.

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      • Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thus why im moving to 11. Lots of the PCs I work with are still 10 though.

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