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[–] Damage@feddit.it 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What drives me crazy is how they can't update all their configuration interface to the same standard, if you go deep enough you still fine things that are unchanged since Windows 98

[–] teejay@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yep. Drill down one level in a few control panel items and you're back in win xp.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 5 points 11 months ago

that the modern Settings still falls back on Control Panel most of the time

I can understand wanting to replace Control Panel but all they ended up doing was creating a Windows Shell frontend