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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by kitsunesoba on Friday January 21, 2022 @12:08AM (#30019406)
One that seems a lot more core to “old style” Windows to me was the labyrinthine dialog tunnels one had to traverse to change some settings, which persisted through XP and didn’t really start getting better until Vista/7. Half the secret to being “good with computers” back then was just remembering which branch of the cave system you needed to take to toggle a particular checkbox.
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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by Aloha on Friday January 21, 2022 @01:34AM (#30019955)
For good or for bad, We got used to the labyrinthine dialog tunnels.

It's no different than building up the option flags in a bash or powershell one liner. It's the direct graphical translation even.

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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by mcswell on Friday January 21, 2022 @12:21AM (#30019489)
Probably written by somebody who used their computer to play D&D all day. You are in a maze of twisty passages, all the same...
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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by pie_flavor on Friday January 21, 2022 @12:23PM (#30026688)
That's Zork, not D&D.
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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by mcswell on Friday January 21, 2022 @05:28PM (#30030785)
Oops. I guess that shows to go, I don't play computer games...
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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by evilduck on Friday January 21, 2022 @03:20AM (#30020670)
11 is better but there's still a few of these tunnel vestiges that show up, like removing a driver from a hardware device or adding NTP servers.
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