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I feel that mourning Control Panel is misplaced. Microsoft would surely do better to build one UX for the normies and improve it rather than do a half baked jo

I feel that mourning Control Panel is misplaced. Microsoft would surely do better to build one UX for the normies and improve it rather than do a half baked job on two. The only mystery is why its taken so long. I can understand Microsoft wanting to phase the migration but its been 10+ years since Settings appeared. If there's a request I would make to Microsoft it would be to expose all the settings, consistently, in a single programmatic way. Powershell would suit me just fine for instance. This idea that powerusers can just unleash on the registry, apart from being an incomplete way to control all the settings, is wild.

herbst 2y ago
It's been 10 years or more where I learned to use windows. I haven't used windows since longer than a few minutes. The control panel is the last thing that was familiar to me. I am sure Powershell works great, but coming from Linux that feels like a badly designed pain not even shipping with a useable terminal. And don't get me wrong I hatet that control panel. But I was able to get things done without a lot of prior knowledge of the system.
akira2501 2y ago
> expose all the settings, consistently, in a single programmatic way. That is the registry. It has an API and everything. > apart from being an incomplete way to control all the settings Well, if you want "all the settings," so you have to accept 'all the complexity' that comes with that. A decent example would be VLANs. They offer a very complex configuration surface if you consider all the deployment and standard options combined with the fact that not all cards and drivers implement them in whole or in part.