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I don't know why I even bother opening the settings app

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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 53 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Based on the progress from Win7 to Win8 to Win10 to Win11, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" doesn't seem to be a prevailing mantra at Microsoft.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 36 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Never doing a code rewrite gives you stuff like this: a 15ft long nerve that should only have to travel a few inches

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 22 points 11 months ago

Sure, but you can refactor code without completely changing or removing functional and widely used features. Especially looking at Win11 vs. Win10, it just feels malicious at this point. "How can we shoehorn in more advertising, AI and telemetrics?"

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That nerve looks like a weirdly deformed phallus

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

How do you know it isn't?

[–] ratman150@sh.itjust.works 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wait till you see the enterprise side where you may find a panel that is virtually identical to something from windows 2000

[–] Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

What do you mean? You can still open control panel from XP/Vista and basically every option menu still points to the same shit that hasn't changed since Windows 95. Go open device manager and go to the properties of any device and you get like XP stuff at newest. Event Viewer, Disk Management, and many other high level panels haven't changed from XP.

90 percent of windows menus are still the same as 2000, even on the consumer side. And they're not virtually identical, they ARE identical.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Lol, honestly, that's probably fair. My memory basically ends at 95 though and I don't remember any 3.1 menus well enough to make a call on that distinction.