The Settings app has taken over, but Control Panels aren’t going anywhere yet.

  • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org
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    2 months ago

    The last time I saw a Windows desktop, there’s apparently now a B-roll of popup ads displayed in the bottom right of the screen. Imagine having to deal with ads right on your desktop environment?

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      2 months ago

      Most of the current Control Panel designs and iconography settled down back in Windows Vista and Windows 7 in 2006 and 2009, which explains why so many of the panels still feature the rounded, glassy look that defines those versions of the operating system

      Imagine a world where having the sleek visual appeal of a low income industrial warehouse is something to reminisce about. A world so hideously useless that covering the default screen in a vomit of applications icons like a target at a gun range seems normal.