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Hope they aim for consistency in the refresh. I don't mind constant refreshes or redesigns. I don't care that I'm slightly less efficient in the modern setting

Hope they aim for consistency in the refresh. I don't mind constant refreshes or redesigns. I don't care that I'm slightly less efficient in the modern settings pages than in the old control panel. I'm happy to lose a bit of efficiency to have a nice design. Just like I want web pages to have a nice design even at a (reasonable) cost of readability or usability. But what does bug me is when the refreshes are half baked. Either refresh everything visible and hide the old one entirely behind some obscure command if it must remain, or don't refresh at all.

leoedin 6y ago
I hate it so much when I want to do some obscure thing on Windows, but when I go to the place you used to be able to do it, it's gone! Replaced with a "modern" control panel which doesn't support that obscure thing. Instead, I have to find my way to the old window via a different route. Eventually the original control panel pops up and I can change that setting. I don't have a problem with changing things if it replaces all the functionality.
syshum 6y ago
Modern Settings is TERRIBLE and missing a crap ton of options that were better in Control Panel... It is trying to do to must "automatically" for you instead of just letting you control the system.
- alkonaut 6y ago
  Yep. So it's really not finished. In order to be finished, it obviously has to do everything. Since the old UX must exist forever for compat, I could accept some part of the most extreme settings to be hidden there (After all - in the end we are still resorting to registry edits for anything that isn't in the control panel!) - but the network card settings, audio device settings that are used by almost every user, is still in the old world. It works, but navigation is confusing, the experience switching between different paradigms is jarring, you can't search for things from the top level and find it in the control panel and so on. They have eft it at 60% finished instead of the 95% or 99% that would make it actually usable.
Nathanael_M 6y ago
Complete agreement. It's like having two sons named Daniel. One's handsome and useless, one's smart and useful. Whenever you call for Daniel, the handsome one pushes the smart one down the stairs and gets to you first, when all you needed was the smart one to come here and figure out how to connect your microphone for you.

leoedin 6y ago

I hate it so much when I want to do some obscure thing on Windows, but when I go to the place you used to be able to do it, it's gone! Replaced with a "modern" control panel which doesn't support that obscure thing. Instead, I have to find my way to the old window via a different route. Eventually the original control panel pops up and I can change that setting. I don't have a problem with changing things if it replaces all the functionality.

syshum 6y ago

Modern Settings is TERRIBLE and missing a crap ton of options that were better in Control Panel... It is trying to do to must "automatically" for you instead of just letting you control the system.

alkonaut 6y ago
Yep. So it's really not finished. In order to be finished, it obviously has to do everything. Since the old UX must exist forever for compat, I could accept some part of the most extreme settings to be hidden there (After all - in the end we are still resorting to registry edits for anything that isn't in the control panel!) - but the network card settings, audio device settings that are used by almost every user, is still in the old world. It works, but navigation is confusing, the experience switching between different paradigms is jarring, you can't search for things from the top level and find it in the control panel and so on. They have eft it at 60% finished instead of the 95% or 99% that would make it actually usable.

Nathanael_M 6y ago

Complete agreement. It's like having two sons named Daniel. One's handsome and useless, one's smart and useful. Whenever you call for Daniel, the handsome one pushes the smart one down the stairs and gets to you first, when all you needed was the smart one to come here and figure out how to connect your microphone for you.