Microsoft confirms (then negates) it is finally killing the Windows Control Panel in favor of the Settings app

jpvalverde85 said:

Nehh, in Linux based distros their Settings app is or feels different for each distro or environment and is just as limited if not more than the MS one, Linux stuff still has to be adjusted from terminal and text files to get the job done as far as I experience it.

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If you stick to one distro and one desktop (e.g. Gnome, Cinnamon), the desktop changes very little. I have had zero problems adjusting to new Linux Mint Cinnamon distros, go back quite a way.

What to say that hasnt already been said. The settings app is pure garbage. Anyone working with it knows it.

thats the reason all IT professionals I know still use control panel who support windows. Good luck finding anything in settings.

MS just wastes time and money either trying to fix things that are not broken, or throwing together useless gimmicks for a "new improved user experience" that nobody wants or needs. All the effort could be better spent making an OS that is less complex, less demanding of processor power, and more reliable without needing constant patches to keep it from falling apart.

If the settings app ends up containing even half the settings we had in the control panel I'll be amazed.
Windows is one of those rare products which is becoming worse and worse as time goes on. It used to generally get better with each version (with the odd wobble such as ME and Windows 8) but you had the sense that Microsoft wanted to make something users appreciated. But Windows 11 is now just an execrable mess. You sense that MS are incapable of truly updating it properly anymore because it has become so bloated and convoluted - you only have to look at explorer and the 97 places a document might end up to see this in action. So rather than try to fix the issues they are just fiddling while it burns and monetizing us all before they sink beneath the waves.

Is MS Windows team run by interns? Let see, we got RAM Memory compression (can be turned off fortenately), RAM caching of files just fills up your RAM with programs that you most likely will not use and then it has to clear it for no gain (cannot be turned off and completely useless), confusing menus and a ugly flat and boring GUI, windows and text scaling issues, E-Cores not properly configured in W10 or W11 for gen 12, 13 and 14 still after 2 years (you have to do it manually for both OS:es (or you can disable them in bios...but thats silly - you paid for them)). The list goes on...but these makes me really tired of MS. They cant even fix or implement simple things that can make the OS better. For each new iteration it is getting worse and worse.

What I've also noticed in the last couple of years, is how much less "fun" computing is with Windows. IMHO of course, and I speak only for myself and nobody else.

Another reason I can't wait to get back to a Linux distro of some sort. And if not for that, I'd just as soon toss home computing altogether. Just an old fart speaking.

jpvalverde85 said:

CP looks old but works well, Settings app looks modern but is clunky, awkward in a lot of places, limited and sometimes hard to set given that supposedly has been developed to simplify the adjustments of the system. I will prefer 10 out of 10 times a refresh of CP rather than a deprecation, it just works, they can keep hiding it but it works better than Settings and when things get hard, there is no Settings adjustment, just a link to a certain part of CP.

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And some setting in Settings they take you to, hold for it ........ Control Panel.

@DragonSlayer101 an update: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...ecates-the-39-year-old-windows-control-panel/

Looks like Microsoft is downplaying or backtracking on deprecating and/or removing the Control Panel.

This is just stupid as I do not use the app function at all. Hell, I do not even setup Emails for outlook in outlook. I use control panel. It is the same what they did with office 365 windows app. They disabled the paste function from hard drive (manual email backups) to outlook 365. This is why I mainly run Linux.

First it caters for AMD where Microsoft does not support AMD properly. Second, Everything Microsoft can do, Linux do better. Windows will disable my AMD GPU and force my IGPU where I never had this problem with Linux.

Compare Windows 7 to Windows 11, Hell even compare it to Windows 10. Windows 10 are faster to navigate than Win 11. Especially when you right click "Show More Options" Like wtf. It is a function that has no purpose...

Well, if they want to have everything in one place they should have left it all in Control Panel in the first place. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I just don't see why they wanted to go a different direction with a tool that worked so well.