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In favor of what? I still have to use control panel because some things are seemingly unreachable by the “settings” menus.

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That’s M$ intention, to hide some settings from users and lose control of Windows.

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Right, I forgot, MS doesn’t want you to have control what programs are doing or how your computer works. Corporate way or…linux.

I may be technologically challenged but Microsoft has been steadily selling me on linux ever since windows 10.

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Linux is just straight up easier to use than an unfucked windows.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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I wonder if you’re talking about the windows 10 or windows 11 version of the settings app?

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Yes. I have win 10 and 11 devices. They both lack certain options and I’ve had to go around them, like using control panel. In this case only the win 11 device is at risk of getting much worse.

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It’s probably all in the registry somewhere.

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