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Windows 10 and it's Settings app were released in 2014. It's been 10 years, and it's still a fancy front-end with no substance, a tiny fraction of the options a

Windows 10 and it's Settings app were released in 2014. It's been 10 years, and it's still a fancy front-end with no substance, a tiny fraction of the options available in the real Control Panel. Where is this supposed "velocity" your speak of, and what has Microsoft been doing with it?

dangus 2y ago
Windows 10 is end of life in one year. It only receives security updates. It hasn’t been receiving feature updates since Windows 11 came out, which was 3 years ago. The velocity is in Windows 11, where control panel is being discontinued. And on top of that, this idea that the settings app doesn’t contain all the same options is kind of ridiculous to me. Maybe it doesn’t if you’re still using Windows 10, the discontinued operating system. Maybe the settings app sucks if you’ve been too stubborn to keep your windows up to date with the latest releases.
- beart 2y ago
  I'm on windows 11. Where in the new settings app should I be looking to find my unformatted drives that I want to partition?
  - dangus 2y ago
    As you have likely noticed, Control Panel is mostly a collection of links to other utilities that open as completely separate windows. Some of them even open the Settings app itself (such as "View Devices and Printers). I see that in the Settings app there is a section System > Storage > Disks and Volumes. You can get to it directly by searching "Manage Disks and Volumes" (or just "Disks"). It doesn’t yet have all the functionality that disk management has. I assume that functionality in Disk Management is going to eventually going to move there. But even if it doesn't, the current Control Panel isn't actually needed to get there. Microsoft will probably just move the link to the Settings app. You can already get to Disk Management without even touching Control Panel (just go to your start menu and search for Disk Management). The Control Panel doesn't even have many items left, I don't know why it's so hard to imagine it going away.
    - beart 2y ago
      > And on top of that, this idea that the settings app doesn’t contain all the same options is kind of ridiculous to me. So I just chose a random example, because I found this statement to be, in your words, kind of ridiculous. > The Control Panel doesn't even have many items left, I don't know why it's so hard to imagine it going away. I can't speak for others, only myself. My problem is not so much that MS wants to move things to the new settings app. It's how they are going about it, which is reflective of a lot of their products these days. I actually like some of the features in Windows 11 and think overall, it has improved on 10. However, I also feel like a beta user, and sometimes things just change for no apparent reason, or in a user-hostile way. As you stated, the disk partition application is separate and control panel is largely a collection of links. Why then, did MS release the new settings app without bothering to simply add a link to the disk partition application? This would not require some large build out of features. And here we are, years later, without a simple link. I know that I can type "disk partition" into the start menu and it will probably (though not always) bring up the program I want to use. When I type that in today, it reveals "Create and format hard disk partitions (Control panel)". Is this the experience MS is trying to offer for Windows 11? As you noted, Windows 10 is nearing end of life. Why does it still feel like Windows 11 is a release candidate?

dangus 2y ago

Windows 10 is end of life in one year. It only receives security updates. It hasn’t been receiving feature updates since Windows 11 came out, which was 3 years ago. The velocity is in Windows 11, where control panel is being discontinued. And on top of that, this idea that the settings app doesn’t contain all the same options is kind of ridiculous to me. Maybe it doesn’t if you’re still using Windows 10, the discontinued operating system. Maybe the settings app sucks if you’ve been too stubborn to keep your windows up to date with the latest releases.

beart 2y ago
I'm on windows 11. Where in the new settings app should I be looking to find my unformatted drives that I want to partition?
- dangus 2y ago
  As you have likely noticed, Control Panel is mostly a collection of links to other utilities that open as completely separate windows. Some of them even open the Settings app itself (such as "View Devices and Printers). I see that in the Settings app there is a section System > Storage > Disks and Volumes. You can get to it directly by searching "Manage Disks and Volumes" (or just "Disks"). It doesn’t yet have all the functionality that disk management has. I assume that functionality in Disk Management is going to eventually going to move there. But even if it doesn't, the current Control Panel isn't actually needed to get there. Microsoft will probably just move the link to the Settings app. You can already get to Disk Management without even touching Control Panel (just go to your start menu and search for Disk Management). The Control Panel doesn't even have many items left, I don't know why it's so hard to imagine it going away.
  - beart 2y ago
    > And on top of that, this idea that the settings app doesn’t contain all the same options is kind of ridiculous to me. So I just chose a random example, because I found this statement to be, in your words, kind of ridiculous. > The Control Panel doesn't even have many items left, I don't know why it's so hard to imagine it going away. I can't speak for others, only myself. My problem is not so much that MS wants to move things to the new settings app. It's how they are going about it, which is reflective of a lot of their products these days. I actually like some of the features in Windows 11 and think overall, it has improved on 10. However, I also feel like a beta user, and sometimes things just change for no apparent reason, or in a user-hostile way. As you stated, the disk partition application is separate and control panel is largely a collection of links. Why then, did MS release the new settings app without bothering to simply add a link to the disk partition application? This would not require some large build out of features. And here we are, years later, without a simple link. I know that I can type "disk partition" into the start menu and it will probably (though not always) bring up the program I want to use. When I type that in today, it reveals "Create and format hard disk partitions (Control panel)". Is this the experience MS is trying to offer for Windows 11? As you noted, Windows 10 is nearing end of life. Why does it still feel like Windows 11 is a release candidate?