I kind of hate how far down the rabbit hole you have to go to find a familiar management ui in windows today. I find myself using run commands to bring up these UIs more and more.
It would be an acceptable tradeoff if these new interfaces added more functionality or visibility but it seems they're just trying to move to the new settings ux and not thinking about adding better function.
Try adding a new local user account to latest windows, compare the functionality in new the network interface settings page vs the legacy adapter properties prompt.
Seems most of the "this just works" stuff that I respect is from windows 2000 and the NT team.
Wish Microsoft would head back that way with a nod to modern usability instead of dumbing things down and worse: changing it every release.
I did some work on Windows servers in the XP era and it was a continuous hassle that the menus were always different in NT 4, Win 2k, Xp, Vista, and all the different versions of Windows server.
Contrast that to command-line admin on Linux that stays the same or the perpetually busted Linux admin GUIs that should just be taken behind the woodshed and shot.
It would be an acceptable tradeoff if these new interfaces added more functionality or visibility but it seems they're just trying to move to the new settings ux and not thinking about adding better function.
Try adding a new local user account to latest windows, compare the functionality in new the network interface settings page vs the legacy adapter properties prompt.
Seems most of the "this just works" stuff that I respect is from windows 2000 and the NT team.
Wish Microsoft would head back that way with a nod to modern usability instead of dumbing things down and worse: changing it every release.