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Everything I need is still in in the old settings windows that haven't changed in 23 years (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by thenewred@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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I don't know why I even bother opening the settings app

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[โ€“] aluminium@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hey, at least Windows has really good backwards compatibility.

[โ€“] ziixe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 10 months ago

That is only maintained due to the new operating system being a new shell placed on top of the countless older shells and some new small features that rely on the newest most fragile thing they added with the shell

I heard some call it the "painting over rust" method, and they're maintaining the most used and by some organisations the most relied on operating system in the world