Comment by timpera
5 hours ago
Microsoft really needs to retire the Control Panel and other old-school elements of the OS. Windows 11's design system is very pretty and user-friendly, please finish the transition to it ASAP!
5 hours ago
Microsoft really needs to retire the Control Panel and other old-school elements of the OS. Windows 11's design system is very pretty and user-friendly, please finish the transition to it ASAP!
The monkey's paw curls, and the old control panels disappear. However, more than 70% of what you needed to do when you did dig down into the old control panel is still not available in the new settings menu.
They've been 'transitioning' away from the old control panel since Windows 8, and they're still nowhere near done. On the contrary, when I do find myself on a Windows machine, I just jump straight to the old settings rather than jump through the hoops of the new settings, since I don't have any confidence in the new settings to do anything when I need them to (honourable mention to Windows update. That's worked mostly fine for me, other than the two times it broke and just refused to update anything until I did some manual fix. All it needs now is an 'Never update automatically. Only update manually' button, but I don't expect Microslop to understand what consent is quite yet).
I giggle every time I stumble upon a Windows 3.1 file-selector dialog still in Windows 11.
The old stuff still being accessible is the only way I find the stuff I'm looking for
Exactly there's so much stuff you simply cannot configure otherwise. For example disallowing applications to take sole ownership of a mic, in-detail power plans, etc. If they remove the old control panel, your machine basically becomes unconfigurable.
I can at least find stuff in control panel
This is sarcasm, right?
Absolutely not sarcasm. Control Panel is a mess and keeping it is only confusing for most users.
Literally every time I interact with the modern settings UI I give up 15 seconds in and switch back to the old control panel.
For instance, how do you change the key repeat delay in the modern UI? I have looked and I actually can't find a way to change it. I have to use control panel.
Just looking at the modern UI is an eyesore, there is so much empty space, a menu that should be a 600x400 rectangle takes up the entire screen. The information density is comically low. I have to scroll up and down this giant monitor sized list to find the one thing I am looking for. It's horrendous.
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I am confused by what you mean by this. An average user would interact with the new "Settings" and never really touch or see Control Panel...
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No, Control Panel works as well as it did 30 years ago.
Settings is a slow, bloated mess, as you stated elsewhere missing many settings, and was in general designed by schizophrenics.
A primary reason for the sorry state of software today is the absolutely delusional priority that software should be "pretty" vs it being functional.
Send all the UI/UX wizards packing, give them a Starbucks apron where IMO they belong, and watch software usability and customer satisfaction improve over the next 5 years.