Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel - eviltoast
  • dan1101@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    They need to finish Settings before doing that. Control Panel is almost always the easier way to accomplish things and still the only way to accomplish some IIRC.

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        4 months ago

        And you can have more than one instance open at a time, instead of having the sound page open and when you try to bring up bluetooth next to it it changes the first one instead.

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          4 months ago

          This is so frustrating when trouble shooting - trying to re-find where that one settings page was because you opened another.
          It’s not a phone - it’s a windowing desktop environment. Allow multiple instances!

          • BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca
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            4 months ago

            They literally already tried and failed with the phoneification of windows when everyone shat on 8. I guess some ahole UI designer still works there and is bitter that people didn’t like their ideas.

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      4 months ago

      I had to do a lot of configuration work on Win10 computers lately. The MMC, Powershell, even Regedit are faster and more intuitive than Settings. It’s fucking ridiculous.

    • esc27@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Settings in Windows 11 is close. I rarely find myself going to control panel when it was about 50/50 in Windows 10. Still more clicks than I would like but workable.

    • sverit@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      This. Settings does not have full audio devices information and settings.