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Lol, actually a Linux user, but I do fear change. And to be fair, I don’t have accurate stats for feature parity percentage. Maybe it is above 70%. And I actually do use the Settings app often when I have to deal with Windows at work. So I get that it’s actually not terrible, and is slowly getting better.

Regardless, let me just add a secondary IP address to a network interface so I can access a network device using a different IP scheme without losing access to the internet. Oh wait… Settings doesn’t have that feature… It opens Control Panel…

Well, that’s just one instance, no biggie. Now I just need to create partitions on a new disk… Settings got my back right? Oh… No… It needs to open Disk Management…

Whatever, that’s pretty rare anyway. Just gotta rename this printer. Oh, launches control panel again…

My point is this, having to navigate what settings have been migrated, what settings haven’t, and what have been disabled just to force users to try Settings, is a bad experience. Its not fearing change, its growing pains. Just telling people that “control panel is being depreciated” doesn’t solve the fact that this swap is currently making the situation harder, not easier. I look forward to the day where I don’t have to wonder where to find the settings I need to access again.

And when the Settings app has even 70% feature parity, I’ll stop crying about control panel.

Not that I’m fully on board with the theory, but you might be surprised how often “solving” a high profile case is placed above actually getting the right man.

This is a publicity nightmare for the police, and getting someone in custody “achieves” placating the public and key stakeholders.

Repeating things about this kids views on the Uni-bomber and referring to his writings as a manifesto “achieves” diminishing his status as a folk hero.

So while I won’t endorse any particular theory until more evidence comes out, it wouldn’t be the first time putting a scapegoat in jail was deemed more important than letting people think the “perp” got away. Even if the hypothetical real shooter kills again, controlling the narrative can be it’s own goal in cases like this.

It’s from the BBC, they are using the British spelling.

I dunno bro, I use Linux and I’m dumb af on a good day.

1, Revision OS is awesome, and good on you for sharing it!
2, I don’t think that’s you disagreeing really, just offering a “third path”.

Should have introduced himself as .JSON, then the brain could have just made a symbolic link.