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Comment by timpera | Hacker News Reader

Absolutely not sarcasm. Control Panel is a mess and keeping it is only confusing for most users.

Literally every time I interact with the modern settings UI I give up 15 seconds in and switch back to the old control panel.

For instance, how do you change the key repeat delay in the modern UI? I have looked and I actually can't find a way to change it. I have to use control panel.

Just looking at the modern UI is an eyesore, there is so much empty space, a menu that should be a 600x400 rectangle takes up the entire screen. The information density is comically low. I have to scroll up and down this giant monitor sized list to find the one thing I am looking for. It's horrendous.

90% of the time when you do find what you're looking for in Settings it's a hyperlink to Control Panel anyway.

I am confused by what you mean by this. An average user would interact with the new "Settings" and never really touch or see Control Panel...

Because many settings still aren't available in the "Settings" app, you often have to dig into the Control Panel (most notably for power options). Microsoft support forums and ChatGPT, which I think would be used by non-technical users when they encounter an issue, seem to both default to recommending going straight to the Control Panel to change settings.

No, Control Panel works as well as it did 30 years ago.

Settings is a slow, bloated mess, as you stated elsewhere missing many settings, and was in general designed by schizophrenics.

A primary reason for the sorry state of software today is the absolutely delusional priority that software should be "pretty" vs it being functional.

Send all the UI/UX wizards packing, give them a Starbucks apron where IMO they belong, and watch software usability and customer satisfaction improve over the next 5 years.

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