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What's more embarrassing than UI is that after 10+ years Win10/11 Settings still don't have the functionality parity with Win7 Control Panel, evidenced by the f
by thrdbndndn 4y ago
What's more embarrassing than UI is that after 10+ years Win10/11 Settings still don't have the functionality parity with Win7 Control Panel, evidenced by the fact you find links everywhere in Settings to officially ask you to open their equivalent in Control Panel to adjust "advanced" settings.
And even at the places they do, arguments can be made about if their UX/UI are actually better; but that's kinda subjective, to be totally fair to MS.
- orwin 4y agoThis is now my major gripe with windows with tool versioning (since i admit that IIS is now more than usable, unlike in 2012). The settings are a pain to go through. When i find a powershell command or a regedit/cmd action that can avoid me the pain, i take it (and i'm always bummed that those are often the last proposed options). Also, i think spotlight in mac is way better than Search, and i dislike that it is Win+S instead of Win+Space. I also think that the default itl layout is a smidge better for dev on Mac, but at this point it's too late. Also to be fair as i mostly use linux: search is way worse and the default are even shittier than windows, but since i can import "my" defaults in 45s, basically the time to type `sudo apt install git make; git clone XXXXXXX/my_default.git; cd my_default; make && sudo make install && reboot`, i'm not too cross about it.
- noveltyaccount 4y agoTry MS PowerToys, enable Everywhere search in the Run utility. Win+space will be nearly as good as Spotlight. Edit: I think this is now called Windows Search or File Search. Sorry been a while since I've used windows full time. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run
- easrng 4y agoif you start typing with the start menu open it searches automatically so you can just hit Win.