• HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    In favor of what? I still have to use control panel because some things are seemingly unreachable by the “settings” menus.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah. This sounds a lot like some PM type thinks they’re gonna get rid of control panel, and they just don’t know what all is actually in there.

      And not to mention the custom control panel applets hanging around out there from who-knows-what vendors.

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        3 months ago

        I don’t think that the PM is wrong. They absolutely can get rid of the control panel. It’s the user who will suffer ✌

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        3 months ago

        I wonder if there would be a way to “embed” those old panel applets into the new settings somehow.

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          3 months ago

          I bet they at most remove control.exe or make it open the Settings app, but still allow launching old vendor .cpl items just like they already can be opened in Control Panel.

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            3 months ago

            This is already implemented on a lot of the settings pages on 11.

            Edit: just wanted to add I don’t think well. I use it at work.

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              3 months ago

              Windows is king at being inconsistent 🔥

              If only they had trained advanced users to use the CLI that would never change unlike the GUI

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 months ago

        And not to mention the custom control panel applets hanging around out there from who-knows-what vendors.

        AMD FirePro and Catalyst users are going to probably stay on an older version of the OS, considering most of those users are going to be educational institutions, engineering workshops, makerspaces/hackerspaces etc.

        Can’t think of any other vendor products that integrated quite as much into the legacy control panel area

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          3 months ago

          I’m thinking of highly niche industrial and embedded products who are likely to be left behind.

          A major traditional selling point for Windows has always been the backwards compatibility.

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      3 months ago

      That’s M$ intention, to hide some settings from users and lose control of Windows.

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        3 months ago

        Right, I forgot, MS doesn’t want you to have control what programs are doing or how your computer works. Corporate way or…linux.

        I may be technologically challenged but Microsoft has been steadily selling me on linux ever since windows 10.

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            3 months ago

            See, that may be the case. Or it might not be. It’s a risk vz reward right now. I am not good with computers and have had my PC, laptop, phone and smart watch, inexplicably break, get stuck on boot and had to have them repaired. I just know my mistakes are easier to screw up my computer and data on linux. So the worse MS gets, the more I am willing to risk it.

      • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Yes. I have win 10 and 11 devices. They both lack certain options and I’ve had to go around them, like using control panel. In this case only the win 11 device is at risk of getting much worse.