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I have yet to see an UWP app that wasn't horrible to use on a desktop, and hence I regularly use exactly 0 UWP apps. And this OS would be all UWP?

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I generally agree. UWP may be great tech under the surface actually, but the skin is just not suited for big screens. Too much whitespace, monochromatic colours and everything is so clunky and pared down. One UWP app I do like is the Xodo PDF reader.

I'm sure the UWP will continue to expand, but it probably will never reach the full power of Win32 because MS no longer wants to let app developers get that kind of control easily. At least not regular app devs.

The font rendering is ugly too, for some inexplicable reason. Microsoft haven't even the courage of their own convictions to convert all of Control Panel to UWP.

It is ugly on low resolution screens. With displays that need scaling the new rendering is actually better.

Also, they are currently working on moving more and more settings from the Control Panel to the UWP Settings app.

Parts of the old control panel are public API, like the mouse control panel. You can add tabs to it that fit the old dimensions of the dialog.

And of course it’s Microsoft so half of the company doesn’t want to switch to the next new technology the other half is going to abandon in a few years.

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