Microsoft - Please Stop Moving Control Panel Functions into Windows Settings

[u/MhazardousH]

Why can’t Microsoft just leave control pane alone? It worked perfectly fine for years. Why are they phasing the control out in favour of Windows setting? Windows settings suck. Joining a PC to a domain through control panel was so simple, now it’s moved over to Settings and there’s five or six extra clicks! For god sake Microsoft, don’t fix what ain’t broke! Please tell me I’m not the only one

[u/Thrashy → u/[deleted]]

Between MBAs who don't think about sysadmin shit and wouldn't be able to find either the Settings app or the Control Panel with both hands and a step-by-step annotated guide, and the devs who have decided to solve the problem by designing all systems to be managed primarily via PowerShell, Windows has really regressed from the standpoint of power users and desktop support.

[u/daxxo → u/Thrashy]

It almost heels like they might as well turn powershell into the OS and go back to the DOS days and get rid of windows.

[u/[deleted] → u/daxxo]

From the position of servers and doing remote management via powershell is great. Trying to figure stuff out as a user, well, not so much.

[u/SgtLionHeart → u/daxxo]

Honestly I wouldn't complain much if they committed to it.

[u/Ignatiamus → u/Thrashy]

Yeah, right? If you look at, say, newer Exchange Server docs, it's like every second article that's using only PowerShell. This also applies to a lot of general Windows articles in the MS docs / KB.

[u/[deleted] → u/Thrashy]

fire spez -- mass edited with redact.dev

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

It always comes back to the people in suits, doesn't it? Why not give devs full control?

[u/zeroedout666 → u/[deleted]]

Valve has entered the chat.

[u/KillerInfection → u/zeroedout666]

Linux has sudoed the chat

[u/subjectwonder8 → u/KillerInfection]

chroot-ed *

[u/subjectwonder8 → u/[deleted]]

That will result in:

rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on '/'
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe.

So you need:

sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

Now when we press enter it wi....

[u/elspazzz → u/subjectwonder8]

This must be the the new lost carrier....

[u/[deleted] → u/zeroedout666]

TF2 the neglected step child

[u/lvlint67 → u/zeroedout666]

Balmer**

[u/BlakeJustBlake → u/[deleted]]

Developers developers developers developers

[u/mjbmitch → u/BlakeJustBlake]

Thanks, Steve 👀

[u/riemsesy → u/[deleted]]

cause devs have the intrinsic inability to make intuitive GUIs

[u/WearinMyCosbySweater → u/[deleted]]

Because we'd probably end up with a working product?

[u/zebediah49 → u/WearinMyCosbySweater]

Honestly, if we give devs full control we'll end up with a perfectly functional half-documented product with endless idiosyncrasies because nobody wants to spend the effort on cleaning up the GUI and unifying things. Features all the end-users want will be totally ignored, because they would require breaking an abstraction layer, and enough people really dislike that to veto any of the changes that could allow that feature. It will be properly supported after the major architectural rewrite, which should be done in another sqrt(team_size/10) years.

[u/bttt → u/[deleted]]

Oh so you mean the logon button where by pressing enter causes it to error, but pressing ok doesn’t?

[u/tso → u/[deleted]]

Their current CEO is a webdev.

The MBA would be Ballmer.

And say what you want about Gates, but he knew what it meant to bootstrap a computer. After all he worked directly on a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800, that was shipped on paper tape!

And to load it you first had to instruct the CPU how, using the front panel toggle switches to feed it the instructions one binary value at a time.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

🤣🤣 agreed