Re:Do you really want Linux phones
by hulitu on Thursday March 25, 2021 @09:12AM
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The settings app is useless. Even win 3.0 had better settings than settings app in win 10.
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You haven't used it in a while. Microsoft is slowly re-implementing or dropping all of the Windows 3.x/9x era Control Panel settings.
A criticism of the Settings App as it stands today based on your usage of it a year ago is very unfair as it's continuously improving and evolving.
> A criticism of the Settings App as it stands today based on your usage of it a year ago
How do you know his/her opinion is based on year-old usage?
I don't, but MS ships an annual update that for the past couple years has included expansion of the Settings App and remove of Control Panel widgets. The original Settings App that shipped with Windows 10 was, as the op said, useless.
As MS has slowly whittled down and removed features from the Control Panel, they have simultaneously added analogs where appropriate in the Settings App. The Settings App in 20H2 is very different and far from useless when compared to what shipped a year ago, or when Windows 10 launched.
The main criticism of Windows settings is the silent reversion of settings which is tantamount to ignoring them. If Microsoft improved the clarity of the settings menu then that's nice, but ultimately irrelevant.
You shouldn't need a third-party utility for re-disabling settings after updates, and it's pretty clear at this point that Microsoft just doesn't give a damn about respecting the user's choices.