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Everyone knows gpedit.msc is the real Control Panel. /s I'm not surprised to see all the negative reactions. The old stuff was pure Win32 and thus very efficie
by userbinator 2y ago
Everyone knows gpedit.msc is the real Control Panel. /s
I'm not surprised to see all the negative reactions. The old stuff was pure Win32 and thus very efficient in many ways. The new stuff is all UWP from what I understand (and UWP is itself supposedly deprecrated for several years now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28932345 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28932345), and much more abstracted and inefficient despite still being native code(?)
I still remember the first time I opened Settings and saw a loading screen, which spent over a second to load a UI that somehow looks even less complete than the one in Windows 1.0, on a system with several orders of magnitude faster CPU and more RAM:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29586970 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29586970
The software industry has been on a quality decline for over a decade. This is just another datapoint in that sad trend.