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by InitialLastName 2394 days ago
The Windows 10 computer I'm using right now has 4 different audio settings screens, all stock, all equally accessible, and it's not at all clear from the names and menus which screen will set volume and which will switch audio devices (those are different settings screens).
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Its not just that... There are people here who claim win10 is "nice" but have obviously never really _looked_ at it. It takes about 1 minute to start 4-5 different applications which are the equivalent of a 20 year history lesson in windows UI's. There are the win3.1 interface which is basically a menubar, there is the 95 era ones which have a menubar and button bar, and maybe even right click works, then there are the ribbon applications, and the modern/metro ones. All shipped with windows, so we aren't even talking about 3rd party apps at this point. Even then we haven't even talked about MDI, or the mishmash of shortcuts for doing the same operation depending on which application.
Yeah, I was only giving the example that came fastest to mind, given that it bites me the most often.
That's a good point, naming of settings sections is quite bad in Windows.
and some of the groupings are so weird! (looking at you, "Update & Security".) i mostly just give up and text-search for the setting i want