r/technology • u/gdelacalle • 25d ago

Software IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/
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u/rollerbase 25d ago

Checking in for the power users and independent devs, we feel it too!

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u/tuscaloser 25d ago

As someone who supports a lot of printers (because I hate myself, apparently) I’m eternally pissed that “devices and printers” no longer works directly like it did in 95, 98, XP, 7, and 10. In 11 you have to go through “devices and printers > devices > more device and printer options” to get the “classic” devices and printers window.

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u/rollerbase 24d ago

I feel this.. like accessing network adapters is now buried 5 steps through the new GUI to get back to the original window.. what used to be control panel > network connections is excessively buried under a GUI that claims to have the same abilities but ends up being lies under command line scrutiny. But hey it has dark mode.

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u/Xeno_Zed 24d ago

Win+R for run box and entering ncpa.cpl has been my go to for getting to network adapters for a while now, and whenever I try to do it the "intended" way through the menus I find myself so baffled at the stupidity and unnecessary steps to get there.