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  • Bullshit to all those points. If you couldnt find it in the control panel before, you sure as shit cant find it now.

    Also, they've been "slowly" transitioning for over two years, wtf? We waiting for the next OS at this point?

    I do NOT need voice activation, I know how to use a keyboard and mouse, the core components of input for a computer.

    You want to use your voice, talk to your mom cause I'm done with her.

    j/k on the mom part

    If you couldnt find it in the control panel before, you sure as shit cant find it now.

    Oh you've tried this new AI Agent that can change the settings for you, have you?

    Bullshit to all those points.

    Which points are "bullshit"? That they're slowly moving everything out of the control panel to the settings app? This is literally what they've been telling us they're doing, and what we've seen them do.

    That they still have the control panel? Nope, not bullshit, it's still there.

    That being able to ask Copilot to change a setting would be helpful? How is that bullshit?

    I do NOT need voice activation

    Good thing it's not MANDATORY then. You can keep using your mouse and keyboard. Also you don't have to use your VOICE for copilot - it's much easier to use the mouse and keyboard. That's how most people use it.

    Also, they’ve been “slowly” transitioning for over two years, wtf? We waiting for the next OS at this point?

    This stuff takes time unfortunately. If they change everything at once they get even more anger and pushback. This way it's just a slow and easy move away from the control panel - 1 thing here, 2 things there, and before you know it hey look! Everything is in the settings app now!

    Oh good mum joke big fella! So clever and badarse.

  • I know what the point is. It sucks.

    Firstly they still have the control panel.

    For now

    Secondly they are slowly transitioning everything relevant from the control panel to the settings app.

    The settings app is half-baked dog shit.

    Thirdly even having everything in the control panel didn’t make it easy to find exactly what you wanted.

    It was certainly easier than the current state of things.

    This makes it so you can just say “set my power profile to balanced” and it would do so. That’s a nice, welcome addition.

    Sure assuming the AI understands your request and the setting you want hasn't been removed because they wanted to put everything in the settings app and the one you wanted conflicts with their data gathering and add presentation and it's not running in the background bogging down your system all the time or trying to interject itself into whatever you're trying to do without involving it.

    For now

    Yes, for now. I even said as much, because Microsoft have made their plans on getting rid of it very clear and open. It's slowly being replaced by moving everything to the settings app.

    The settings app is half-baked dog shit.

    You could say that it's slowly getting all the features added to it, couldn't you? What is "half baked dog shit" about it?

    It was certainly easier than the current state of things.

    What was easier to find in the control panel than it is in settings?

    Sure assuming the AI understands your request and the setting you want hasn’t been removed because they wanted to put everything in the settings app

    You think that the AI would not have access and knowledge of the settings app? They made no mention of the AI Agents only being able to make changes in the control panel.

    and it’s not running in the background bogging down your system all the time

    You've never actually used windows 11, have you?

  • For now

    Yes, for now. I even said as much, because Microsoft have made their plans on getting rid of it very clear and open. It's slowly being replaced by moving everything to the settings app.

    The settings app is half-baked dog shit.

    You could say that it's slowly getting all the features added to it, couldn't you? What is "half baked dog shit" about it?

    It was certainly easier than the current state of things.

    What was easier to find in the control panel than it is in settings?

    Sure assuming the AI understands your request and the setting you want hasn’t been removed because they wanted to put everything in the settings app

    You think that the AI would not have access and knowledge of the settings app? They made no mention of the AI Agents only being able to make changes in the control panel.

    and it’s not running in the background bogging down your system all the time

    You've never actually used windows 11, have you?

    What is “half baked dog shit” about it?

    The fact that they're moving things over slowly instead of just fucking finishing it before they deploy it all at once. They've been doing this since Windows 10 came out, they have a trillion dollars. There's no excuse to have it be half assed for so long especially considering "Settings" isn't even an improvement.

    What was easier to find in the control panel than it is in settings?

    Literally everything? You don't have to click through 14 different menus to drill down to what you're looking for. It's all on one window in Control Panel. Just look at Devices and Printers in Control Panel vs. Devices in settings or Programs and Features vs. Apps and features the newer versions have far less information available at a glance.

    You’ve never actually used windows 11, have you?

    I use it every day on my work PC. It runs like ass.

  • If you couldnt find it in the control panel before, you sure as shit cant find it now.

    Oh you've tried this new AI Agent that can change the settings for you, have you?

    Bullshit to all those points.

    Which points are "bullshit"? That they're slowly moving everything out of the control panel to the settings app? This is literally what they've been telling us they're doing, and what we've seen them do.

    That they still have the control panel? Nope, not bullshit, it's still there.

    That being able to ask Copilot to change a setting would be helpful? How is that bullshit?

    I do NOT need voice activation

    Good thing it's not MANDATORY then. You can keep using your mouse and keyboard. Also you don't have to use your VOICE for copilot - it's much easier to use the mouse and keyboard. That's how most people use it.

    Also, they’ve been “slowly” transitioning for over two years, wtf? We waiting for the next OS at this point?

    This stuff takes time unfortunately. If they change everything at once they get even more anger and pushback. This way it's just a slow and easy move away from the control panel - 1 thing here, 2 things there, and before you know it hey look! Everything is in the settings app now!

    Oh good mum joke big fella! So clever and badarse.

    I'd rather they spend time fixing all the things theyre "working on" rather that introduce more half baked shit into the os for fucks sake. There is a huge list of things that keep people from upgrading so instead they said "now you have to". Fuck that. Just fix your shit and people will upgrade willingly.

    Fuck windows. They had a great thing going with Windows, then the reneged. They said windows 10 was going to be the last major OS for windows. How do we trust anything from Microsoft now?

    now it's going to cause people to trash their working device because it's only 7th gen and doesn't have TPM 2.0. greedy little piggies who want to track their users and throw privacy out the window.

  • "We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents," Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. "An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks."

    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.

  • 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.

    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.

  • "We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents," Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. "An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks."

    "Hey Copilot. Delete yourself, Recall and all other bloatware from my system. Thank you."

  • 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.

    The registry never has and never will be simple nor usable. Windows is rotten to the core.

  • "We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents," Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. "An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks."

    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

  • What is “half baked dog shit” about it?

    The fact that they're moving things over slowly instead of just fucking finishing it before they deploy it all at once. They've been doing this since Windows 10 came out, they have a trillion dollars. There's no excuse to have it be half assed for so long especially considering "Settings" isn't even an improvement.

    What was easier to find in the control panel than it is in settings?

    Literally everything? You don't have to click through 14 different menus to drill down to what you're looking for. It's all on one window in Control Panel. Just look at Devices and Printers in Control Panel vs. Devices in settings or Programs and Features vs. Apps and features the newer versions have far less information available at a glance.

    You’ve never actually used windows 11, have you?

    I use it every day on my work PC. It runs like ass.

    Correction: they've been doing it since Windows 8 came out.

    Windows 8 came out 13 years ago.

  • "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"

  • 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

  • The registry never has and never will be simple nor usable. Windows is rotten to the core.

    Have you tried to configure gnome beyond what is offered in its GUI ?

  • Have you tried to configure gnome beyond what is offered in its GUI ?

    No, I'm a happy i3wm user.

    Because I've tried to get GNOME to do what I wanted. (Also it was too slow on the machines I was using at the time).

    And that's besides the point: on linux you can just use a good DE without messing with much -- KDE, cinnamon, etc...

  • Copilot: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"

    While the precise words were different, I otherwise had this exact exchange with Gemini.

  • 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!"

  • "We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents," Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. "An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks."

    Changing settings is only frustating because the modern Settings apps sucks ass lol. You can bet everyone was less frustrated with Control Panel.

  • They broke alt tab.

    That's how fucking inept they are

    In what way?

  • In what way?

    Multiple ways

    • there was an update that meant alt-tab brought you a black screen
    • there was another one that meant it didn't tab between the two most recent windows, but brought up a selection. They tried to tout this as a feature you had to turn off
  • Multiple ways

    • there was an update that meant alt-tab brought you a black screen
    • there was another one that meant it didn't tab between the two most recent windows, but brought up a selection. They tried to tout this as a feature you had to turn off

    So one is a bug, and another is a feature I actually use everyday. Did you mean the selection prevents you from quickly changing between recent windows? I don't remember it actually slowing down my switching at all.

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