Get that POS off my computer.
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Changing settings is only frustating because the modern Settings apps sucks ass lol. You can bet everyone was less frustrated with Control Panel.
Nah, did you forget how hidden and inconsistent some of the setting location was in control panel? The windows 11 settings app may have brought some new issues to the table, but ease of finding settings is not it.
If I wasn't already familiar with how the control panel is laid out, I wouldn't have any idea how to find most of what I used to do on it. Also, you can only set static IP per adapter in control panel, not for each WiFi connection. That was stupid.
User: "Cortana, secure my PC against data harvesting and surveillance from Microsoft."
Cortana: "Dave, you are not allowed to have privacy. The 1st, 4th, and 5th amendments do not apply to corporations. Also, Trump is the best that ever was. Stop posting progressive propaganda, else fines will be imposed."
Alright, that's fucking it. Next long weekend I have, I'm figuring out how to install Bazzite.
Watch a quick YouTube video about Bazzite. The installation is easy.
I’ve been trying to get some of my games to work on Bazzite.. no hope!
nVidia GPU’s get a 20% decrease in performance. AMD works better.
Couldn't they have used ai to figure out how to make the settings less obscure instead.
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google has a spying app(you will have to delete occasionally) on any android phones if your using google in any manner.
Are you talking about google services? Because all google apps are spying on you
The biggest frustration is not me changing settings.
The biggest frustration is windows changing back those settings whenever it feels like it.
This is just doubling down on the "greatest frustration"
Well tbf, they did keep moving them on me and hiding them from me.
Wouldn't be surprised if they moved them again...behind an AI wall that can interact with them but you can't without using that AI. Also they'll continue to reset them whenever they feel like it, if they even successfully get changed by the AI, if the AI doesn't say "I can't let you do that Dave" when you try and disable telemetry.
Or maybe the AI just lies and says it changed the setting and then doesn't. There's a 'delete my data' button on reddit profiles that is literally a fake button, it wouldn't even be a new tactic.
I figured that's what this was not their way to help find where ms moved them
This is why I got my 70 year old mother on a frameworks laptop running pop OS. It looks like a Mac and she thinks its pretty. Switching cost is over hyped. Fuck big tech
Holy shit.
Your ux SUCKS SO MUCH, that instead of making it not shitty.....
You developed AI for it?
Are you fucking kidding me
How inept are these developers
They broke alt tab.
That's how fucking inept they are
In what way?
You brought back an old, old memory of reading a Dave Barry novel about computers. In it, he describes going to a Microsoft convention in which they introduced, IIRC, Windows 95; while describing the taskbar, they apparently touted "no more alt+tab!"
Dear god, those fools never worked with two spreadsheets at once in their life
Microsoft Windows be like
**bangs chest**
**glass panel of case explodes**
Ah Christ. We’ve collectively regressed so much in computer knowledge that people can’t even find a settings menu? Even I have trouble believing that one.
Which one Windows has multiple 😅
I unironically had a friend who hated Linux Mint for awhile because he believed for YEARS you always double click applications in the task bar like you would on your desktop. When he switched he was so furious how apps would crash and/or just not start until I told him "dude.. just click it once"
I have no idea how this didn't happen on Windows or how he never had something open up twice
kinda fair considering windows has like 20 control panels that should all do the same thing but at the end of the day you still need to use regedit.
Finding settings in Windows is pretty hard
The problem that i cant find the setting, or it's in a different app or intentionally cant be changed easily. I want to limit my battery to charge only when below 30%; but i cant do that in battery or power settings. I want to disable some "feature" where windows randomly adds a new keybord layout to windows, but this is not a setting but seems to be a bug. I want to completely disable usb- or lan-wakeup, but despite changing settings in the device manager my desktop is sometimes turned on in the morning after i set it to hibernate the night before. I dont want one-drive or cloud, but this is also not a setting but a design decision by the MS marketing department to make money with their half-baked cloud solutions.
Disabling wol and USB is usually a bios-level setting. Everything else is windows being shite.
Tired that as well, no luck.
The last time finding settings in Windows was straight forward was Windows 95. Since the stupid dumbed down 'settings' app was vomited upon us, it has been nearly impossible to find the thing you know is there but has now been renamed and moved, and isn't even indexed in the settings app search bar.
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I set up my pc as dual boot a few weeks back. Opened up windows yesterday, for the first time in a while, to export a few settings from thunderbird. Took about half an hour to get it started. Felt like popping round to the house of an abusive ex to pick up the last of my things.
Couldn’t make a proper settings menu and AI is dumb as rocks….. - + - = - -? Shoot control panel is better than this combo.
Perhaps you could just make them easier to find by putting them in one location... You could call it a "control panel".
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Maybe if you didn't split settings into that half-baked settings app, then leave control panel in place with the remaining settings, but make control panel increasingly difficult to get to, we wouldn't need a stupid AI agent to help us change settings.
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"Hey Copilot. Delete yourself, Recall and all other bloatware from my system. Thank you."
Copilot: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
"Hey Dave, I installed CandyCrush and the LinkedIn App for windows during the latest update!"
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I actually like the ability for a local AI to help with this in theory. I don't think it's an excuse for unintuitive UIs though.
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Surely there would be no way scammers or hackers would take advantage of this with some crafty prompts that somehow get feed into the agent...
Option 1: Admit your UI choices (made mostly to accommodate an all tablet PC future that never arrived) are terrible and redesign the Windows settings screens to display all new and old settings that still work, with search functions.
Option 2: Spend tens of billions training an AI to find those settings and change them.
Well done, Microsoft. I knew you'd make the right choice.
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