I don't know why both MS and Linux don't have a tool like IBM's AIX SMIT GUI that generates a CLI/shell command from a menu based dialogue. This was a great tool for those seldom used admin things you needed to do.
Microsoft is planning an 'Advanced Windows Settings' panel for power users
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Because since then situation in Windows changed, and there are already multiple control panels, with settings being spread around them in nonsensical way - and this one just adds a 3rd one. It really needs a complete rework of settings. And to be honest i like the split of default and poweruser settings.
Maybe that's what this is. A way to bring all those advanced settings from the Control Panel into the Settings window. Think of all those smaller unresizable windows that are a few hundred pixels wide and tall with the tabs at the top and the OK, Cancel, Apply buttons at the bottom. You know the kind. Those are in most cases advanced settings.
You are too optimistic. It has been a very long time since MS has done anything coherent with Windows.
Re: Microsoft is planning an 'Advanced Windows Settings' panel for power users
#63I miss Windows XP / 7, everything went downhill after.
Man I wish Microsoft (Apple too!) would just say screw it to new features and spend time really polishing their operating systems. I'm sitting on Windows 10 as long as I can.
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#66> Microsoft is developing an 'Advanced Windows Settings' panel to give advanced users more control over their operating system and improve workflows. > Give developers more control over their system settings and advanced behaviors > > - Help developers discover powerful settings that can improve their daily workflows & improve machine performance This is the set up to start charging for these right?
The play is to get developers to upload their data to Microsoft’s Cloud so OpenAI can vacuum it up.
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It’s called “install Linux”
Every single Linux DE sucks and will suck an incredible amount of your time if anything goes wrong / you want to tweak something niche. Open source (in the Linux DE world) = free = eff it, I’m not getting paid, they should be thankful
There is only one good DE and it is Fluxbox. ;)
(I'll go get my flame suit on.)
Re: Microsoft is planning an 'Advanced Windows Settings' panel for power users
#68I miss Windows XP / 7, everything went downhill after.
I don’t miss windows at all, been all Linux since 1995.
Different strokes for different folks.
There's been different things through the years, games was a big one, but there's still the lack of any good remote desktop solution that's keeping me on Windows. I also haven't found a good replacement for Acronis TrueImage, ie incremental full-disk backups that run in the background, which has allowed me to be back in action in under 30 minutes when I've had drives fail.
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No settings needed — there's always the "I wasn't asking" approach of deleting the DLLs that contain the code for these misfeatures.
Which requires disabling/bypassing/breaking system integrity checks, because, you know, ads are essential part of the OS
What system integrity checks? That's a thing now? I mean I did it for Windows Update and Edge and Defender in my VM, no problems so far.
Re: Microsoft is planning an 'Advanced Windows Settings' panel for power users
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Which requires disabling/bypassing/breaking system integrity checks, because, you know, ads are essential part of the OS
What system integrity checks? That's a thing now? I mean I did it for Windows Update and Edge and Defender in my VM, no problems so far.
I asked you above to provide the specific details and contribute here in HN please.