[russellbeattie]

It's my opinion that the Windows Control panel (pictured here: http://toastytech.com/guis/win10control.png) is the single worst designed user interface of all time.

Why? It is the only - and I mean only - list of items on a screen organized horizontally in any OS I can think of. Any time you resize the window, every single item in the list is now reorganized into different rows and columns.

Ever wonder why you can never seem to find what you want in the Control Panel? It's not just because Microsoft loves to subtly change the names of core settings every year or so, but because they're constantly moving and shifting around.

Seriously, give me an example of a horizontally organized list like this in any OS - past, present, desktop, mobile... I can't think of any. Nothing else is so dumb. There must be special code in this particular window to keep it so moronic, that Microsoft continues to maintain, year after year. Amazing.

/rant

[dagw]

While I completely agree with everything you wrote, it is worth noting that the default view in Windows 10 is the more sane view by category rather than the view you're showing.

That being said I still always use the Search box to find what I'm looking for, despite (because?) having been a Windows users for decades.

[sedatk]

Category view is the default since Windows Vista.

[jszymborski]

Not sure if this is what you meant, but Ubuntu mimics this in Unity... in fact I think most Linux DEs now come with something similar...

http://imgur.com/80Pl4tx

[russellbeattie]

Like someone else said, that's like the Mac System menu. The difference is subtle, but very important: Each group is self-contained, so the icons reflow only within that section if the window is resized (if the window even allows resizing).

[bshimmin]

That's much more like a copy of the Mac's System Preferences, really.

[iambateman]

But crucially the mac pane can't be resized or reorganized.

In practice, I use search for the configuration option every single time on mac. It's great.

[accountyaccount]

I don't even try anymore, I just search

[Iv]

Also if like me you have to access to Windows in different languages, each will come in a different order.

[mjs7231]

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