I set up my pc as dual boot a few weeks back. Opened up windows yesterday, for the first time in a while, to export a few settings from thunderbird. Took about half an hour to get it started. Felt like popping round to the house of an abusive ex to pick up the last of my things.
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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Holy shit.
Your ux SUCKS SO MUCH, that instead of making it not shitty.....
You developed AI for it?
Are you fucking kidding me
How inept are these developers
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"Hey Copilot. Delete yourself, Recall and all other bloatware from my system. Thank you."
Easy way to automatically set settings that are convenient for them and disguise it as AI being AI
Worse - easy way to set the settings then gaslight the user to say they asked for it that way.
How much you wanna bet that it makes those changes in a way that is generally indistinguishable from as if it was done by the user's own credentials? (Except save perhaps in recall's own logs)
Just put the search results in under the search bar, bro.
just a simple search feature works.
Glad to be using Linux on all my computers
Ah Christ. We’ve collectively regressed so much in computer knowledge that people can’t even find a settings menu? Even I have trouble believing that one.
kinda fair considering windows has like 20 control panels that should all do the same thing but at the end of the day you still need to use regedit.
You know that windows 10 still has the original control panel hidden deep in there.
Why do that
The last time finding settings in Windows was straight forward was Windows 95. Since the stupid dumbed down 'settings' app was vomited upon us, it has been nearly impossible to find the thing you know is there but has now been renamed and moved, and isn't even indexed in the settings app search bar.
The registry never has and never will be simple nor usable. Windows is rotten to the core.
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Just to be the devil's advocate here: There are way more settings now than back then. That interface wouldn't cut it either.
The problem isn't the new coat of paint - it's more that Microsoft keeps painting half the building then starting over for the new OS. It's frustrating that the key to finding a setting is knowing when it was developed to know which UI you need to be digging through.
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Not convinced the number matter as much if settings are indexed and thus searchable, which they probably are now otherwise the "AI" wouldn't be able to access them. So... just more convolutions for the end user?
Finding settings in Windows is pretty hard
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I actually like the ability for a local AI to help with this in theory. I don't think it's an excuse for unintuitive UIs though.
I appreciate the sentiment - in fact it's been fun watching AI being integrated into home assistant by end users and being given full control, lots of incredibly interesting times.
But not all AI is the same. Somehow I expect that Microsoft's implementation will make it ridiculously easy to opt-in to Microsoft services and relaxed privacy settings, but will leave opting out as an exercise left to the user.
I agree but with Microsoft you know an air-gapped 'AI agent' is never going to happen.
Wow, a take that isn't just "AI bad?" Wild.
Yeah I thought it was weird that it couldn't do this in windows in the first place when you had to click a button to allow the AI to change your computer from light to dark mode or something. It was right 99% of the time in my brief testing, and just include an undo button in case it isn't.
All of that said, I'm glad to be on Linux where there isn't any AI built into my OS, but I'm also not the target audience for needing an AI to change my settings for me.
Because coming up with a UI that doesn't suck is too much work
Quick! I need a guide on how to disable this.
Pop_OS or Bazzite, IMO.
Unfortunately, Ubuntu is corporate bloatware these days.
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There isn't a settings switch to turn off?