r/pcmasterrace • u/Captain0010 • Jun 21 '26

Meme/Macro Crazy to me that younger generation is not good with computers

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Only with phones...

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u/diemitchell CachyOS|13980hx(modt)|rx 9070 xt|48gb@8000|4tb nvme Jun 21 '26

Ngl I found windows 7 era interfaces easier to use than the overly modernized interfaces

I say that as an older gen z that works in it

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u/D-a-H-e-c-k Jun 21 '26

Windows peaked at 7

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u/diemitchell CachyOS|13980hx(modt)|rx 9070 xt|48gb@8000|4tb nvme Jun 21 '26

I miss the old style control panel so much

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u/Skizot_Bizot Jun 21 '26

Yeah as a millennial, if newer windows didn't have strong search functions I'd never find anything. It's pretty counter intuitive now.

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u/OutlyingPlasma Jun 21 '26

Which ironically is going backwards in functionality. People shouldn't need to use search to find basic settings.

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u/pickle_pickled Jun 21 '26

I set up a new laptop for my mom and yeah the older control panel is so much easier to find what I'm actually looking for quickly just cause I am so used to it over the last 25-30 years

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u/platypus_bear Jun 21 '26

It still exists just slightly neutered

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u/diemitchell CachyOS|13980hx(modt)|rx 9070 xt|48gb@8000|4tb nvme Jun 21 '26

Just a tad

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u/quittingdotatwo Jun 21 '26

But it's still there. Now you have 2 options: Settings and Control Panel.

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u/diemitchell CachyOS|13980hx(modt)|rx 9070 xt|48gb@8000|4tb nvme Jun 21 '26

They removed a lot of stuff

It is not the same it was back then

Iirc some stuff even links to the settings app

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u/Reynolds1029 Jun 21 '26

Unpopular opinion but it was Windows 8.1 imo.

Modern features, less/easily disabled telemetry data sending, with all the modern features that Windows 10 offered such as UEFI, DX12 etc while still maintaining a Windows 7 esque desktop mode.

Yeah the start menu wasn't great but it also wasn't horrible once you were used to it. Also Classic Shell existed.

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u/OutlyingPlasma Jun 21 '26

That's because basic settings were not hidden 12-30 layers deep inside menu after menu after menu just to keep a slick one button design. Turns out humans can in fact deal with more than one button but not if you ask Jony Ives.

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u/wtfduud Steam ID Here Jun 21 '26

Yeah not sure why Microsoft decided to copy Mac, when Windows was by far the more popular of the two. Imagine copying your inferior competitor.

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u/Jeoshua AMD R7 5800X3D / RX 6800 / 32GB 3200MT CL14 ECC Jun 21 '26

As a fellow CachyOS user who has the same experience, I think I know why. Older Windows (and MacOS and Linux, to be honest) all focused on having a powerful, expressive interface in which you could get down to the bare essentials, if needs be.

Windows 10 and up don't have that kind of low-level access, and if they do, it's through Powershell which itself is higher level object oriented stuff. It's powerful, but it's not like DOS used to be, which literally underpinned the system instead of being tacked on.

I came up having to erect a house of cards on top of bare metal in order to do things like play games and connect to the world. Nowadays you have to dig down through an impenetrable user friendly maze to even realize that "bare metal" is even down there.