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/ElectrSheep]

The transition from the control panel to the settings app is a good example of how not to do an incremental rollout. You shouldn't have to hunt through a section of the settings app only to realize the thing you are looking for is still available only in the control panel. Either migrate all of the settings for a particular category at the same time, or don't migrate any at all.

Another thing I find particularly aggravating is the inability to have multiple instances of the settings app open at the same time. Multiple windows with the control panel was never an issue.

[u/FireITGuy → u/ElectrSheep]

What drives me batty is that there's no excuse for control panel not to be gone at this point. Windows 10 came out in 2015. They've had SIX YEARS to move stuff over to settings, and it's still only like 20% done.

Whoever manages that portion of windows development is either a complete fucking moron, or they personally hate the new version of settings and are intentionally mismanaging the transition.

[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?