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"It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived." It never did.

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[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What's a pain in the ass is when you have to try to get to those menus to do something like change an environmental variable or restart a network adapter.

Microsoft has been making it more and more difficult to efficiently administer Windows.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They actually made the environment variable editor a lot better in a recent version, at least for the path. It looks like this now: https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/ea62bdcb-8165-4e8d-a9bd-a9d76439f76d.webp

I actually noticed that last week when setting up some repos to migrate from JavaX to Jakarta. It was a pleasant surprise.

Although getting to that menu was a pain in the ass. One of these days I'll get around to memorizing the .msc list, but thankfully my job is fucking with RHEL