• mkwt@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Yeah. This sounds a lot like some PM type thinks they’re gonna get rid of control panel, and they just don’t know what all is actually in there.

    And not to mention the custom control panel applets hanging around out there from who-knows-what vendors.

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      2 months ago

      I don’t think that the PM is wrong. They absolutely can get rid of the control panel. It’s the user who will suffer ✌

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      2 months ago

      I wonder if there would be a way to “embed” those old panel applets into the new settings somehow.

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        I bet they at most remove control.exe or make it open the Settings app, but still allow launching old vendor .cpl items just like they already can be opened in Control Panel.

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          This is already implemented on a lot of the settings pages on 11.

          Edit: just wanted to add I don’t think well. I use it at work.

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            2 months ago

            Windows is king at being inconsistent 🔥

            If only they had trained advanced users to use the CLI that would never change unlike the GUI

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      And not to mention the custom control panel applets hanging around out there from who-knows-what vendors.

      AMD FirePro and Catalyst users are going to probably stay on an older version of the OS, considering most of those users are going to be educational institutions, engineering workshops, makerspaces/hackerspaces etc.

      Can’t think of any other vendor products that integrated quite as much into the legacy control panel area

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        2 months ago

        I’m thinking of highly niche industrial and embedded products who are likely to be left behind.

        A major traditional selling point for Windows has always been the backwards compatibility.