It's been 10 years since Windows 8 dropped, and as far as I can tell you still can't correctly set an IP address from the settings app in Windows 11 so you need to use the windows 7 era components.
Windows is a Frankenstein's monster where you've got the way that works to do things, then you've got the post windows 8 way of doing things. Both have to continue existing because Microsoft isn't capable of handling basic tasks so people need to use the old ways of doing things.
Think about the comparable upgrades that occurred over the same time spans in the past. The switch from 3.x to 9x, from 9x to NT, from basic NT to 2000 and XP. Not just that, but the switch from Mac OS 7.1 to Mac OS 8, to mac OS 9, to Mac OS X! That year, the Linux Kernel was one year old, and essentially the entire Linux ecosystem went from being one shitty kernel to being kernel version 2.5 and from no distributions to speak of to having something as user friendly as mandrake.
In a lot of ways, it seems to corroborate the stories we've all heard that these companies which used to be filled with strong programmers are now filled with people who are basically like the Europeans in the dark ages squatting in the ruins of Greek and Roman buildings that wouldn't be possible to build again for centuries.
Evil is one thing, incompetent is another, powerful evil and incompetent is the worst of all possible worlds.
Windows is a Frankenstein's monster where you've got the way that works to do things, then you've got the post windows 8 way of doing things. Both have to continue existing because Microsoft isn't capable of handling basic tasks so people need to use the old ways of doing things.
Think about the comparable upgrades that occurred over the same time spans in the past. The switch from 3.x to 9x, from 9x to NT, from basic NT to 2000 and XP. Not just that, but the switch from Mac OS 7.1 to Mac OS 8, to mac OS 9, to Mac OS X! That year, the Linux Kernel was one year old, and essentially the entire Linux ecosystem went from being one shitty kernel to being kernel version 2.5 and from no distributions to speak of to having something as user friendly as mandrake.
In a lot of ways, it seems to corroborate the stories we've all heard that these companies which used to be filled with strong programmers are now filled with people who are basically like the Europeans in the dark ages squatting in the ruins of Greek and Roman buildings that wouldn't be possible to build again for centuries.
Evil is one thing, incompetent is another, powerful evil and incompetent is the worst of all possible worlds.
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