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[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Newest versions of windows 11 make it incredibly hard to find the screen that shows all your network adapters. It is now easier to use device manager to disable and reenable an adapter.

How do I know? Because all the shit tier screens and tools that offer to help you with a network issue didn't work. ONLY reenabling the NIC did.

Had to do it on my whole network

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Learn the ways of the run prompt: ncpa.cpl launches you right to the classic network adapter control panel screen. I have to get in there so often that I've taught myself plenty of those little shortcuts because MS can't leave shit where it was.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

How do I give lemmy gold?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

...And it all has to be there for legacy compatibility, because some Fortune 500 company somewhere has some rickety piece of shit in-house "enterprise" software that relies on some obscure aspect or another of a past Windows version.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I am sort of partial to those rickity old systems that force them to keep legacy software compatibility.

I can still load up and use a program that was written 20 years ago for windows XP.

It also gives third parties like classic shell or startallback the ability to restore all the functionality that the newest start menu disaster tries to push.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Why don't you just use control panel?

I never use the windows settings menu unless I absolutely have to because, like you insinuated, it's really not that great.

Control panel on the other hand is still there and will get you exactly where you need much quicker.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

i find the best solution to this problem is to install linux

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's definitely looking like a possibility. I do my work on Linux machines but only use win for games. If I can play my main community games it might be time to make the switch for good

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

if you dont play games that use anticheat you're probs okay.

most everything else either works with proton out the box or with some small tweaks.

protondb is the best resource for linux gaming imo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, my primary is Kubuntu. I have windows on the side for the few games I have that I need it for.

[–] MrScottyTay 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You can also just search "network" and the screen they want is either the first or second result. I rarely ever go into any kinds of settings menus anymore, i just search on the start menu.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why are the settings for a single device spread across multiple sections of the OS though?

[–] MrScottyTay 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because windows 11 is an updated version of windows 19 and windows 10 is an updated version of windows 7/8.1.

Each one of them has had holdovers of previous versions of windows. And each one has tried to bring in a new standard to bring them all together but they've always moved on to the next standard before finishing it. Windows 11 has actually came the closest but we're not there yet and because it's actively replaced old methods of doing things in this process it feels more fractured than before because we're not used to looking in the new places for them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I feel like making important changes was easiest with XP. It feels like they're trying to obscure administrative functions behind layers of abstraction.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

ipconfig /release

ipconfig /renew

In cmd stop working?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This didn't work, I did try at the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Did you use cmd with elevated admin privileges? Try right click cmd and run as admin if you don't know what I'm talking about. Windoze stopped running cmd with elevated privileges sometime around Win7. From a security perspective it makes a lot of sense to do that as default, even though it can be a bit of a pain for home users that expect to have admin for everything they do.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If I wanted to use the terminal, I'd use Linux

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Disabling and enabling a network adapter using a GUI is trivial on most Linux desktops. So not helping Microsoft's case.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Kind of feel like Windows 11 is trying to appeal most to people who only use Windows for stuff like Outlook and Excel.

If your job requires any niche or specialized software. Or if you need your Windows system for managing networks and stuff like that, you're probably better off sticking with older windows or jumping to Linux.

Obviously it's not as easy as just switching to Linux, especially for larger organizations etc. But it gets easier with every new version of Ubuntu, Fedora etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Microsoft terminal and wsl are fantastic. Not a replacement for Linux, but they're great.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Even easier in powershell:

Get-NetAdapter

Disable-NetAdapter

Enable-NetAdapter