Comment by BLKNSLVR

Comment by BLKNSLVR 3 days ago

> kind of like the old Control Panel.

Aaaah, old Control Panel. One of the things that made me realise that I'm now better at administering a Linux system than a Windows one is that the old Control Panel has been replaced by a series of other screens that don't link together by the same concepts that Control Panel used as groupings.

I think the old Control Panel still exists, but they make it hard to find, and if that's the case then it's not going to exist much longer.

It really is one of the things / realisations that properly ended Windows for me.

QuercusMax 3 days ago

It's worse than that - the older the layer, the older and typically more powerful the UI you'll find. Such a crazy hodgepodge.

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Froztnova 2 days ago

The fact that they have this accumulating crust of interfaces, usually with different capabilities and visual styles stapled on top of one another, really makes you wonder whether Microsoft is really thinking about what they're doing.

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shmeeed 2 days ago

And they've gone such lengths to hide it! An innocuous text link somewhere to the right, hidden between some nondescript lorem ipsum, or somewhere way down where you'd never know to scroll because the scroll bar is hidden by default... it's a great adventure of discovery, so much fun!

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- QuercusMax 2 days ago
  
  “It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'"
  
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