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Raymond Chen, a Microsoft blogger, has posted[0] about why Windows doesn't use an expert mode.

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030728-00/?p=43...

They do kinds of have an Expert mode though; all of the original menus and options that they hide behind frustratingly glib, to the point of being useless, "modern" menus, with plenty of whitespace.

A recent Windows update even went so far as to proudly boast about how they were adding back menu items that had disappeared in this drive for stupidification of the menus. Hardly progress.

It's an old post, they have in Windows 10. Kinda. Many sections in Settings have options for advanced settings that would take you to the old Control Panel.

That's a bit different though. They're rebuilding the airplane mid flight. The long term goal is to replace the Control Panel entirely, it's just a multi-year and possibly multi-decade effort.

That's why they keep linking to the Control Panel, they're not there yet. I think they'll soon be done with the System page, for example.

it's getting less and less. well in H20 or however that is called, I had trouble to finding the dialog to join a computer to a domain.

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