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I don’t know if I agree with entirely. A good UI lets you configure your system without knowing much about it. E.g. if you want to change Ubuntu’s Wi-Fi power save setting you edit a hidden text file (I don’t remember where it is off of the top of my head.) I didn’t even know that this file existed without a helpful AskUbuntu thread and that editing it would greatly speed up my connection. If a UI option existed, I would probably have found it while poking around the network settings screen.
That’s what a good UI does: it lets you mess with your system without need for a help forum or leafing through documentation. You can look at where settings are supposed to be, find what you’re looking for, and even explore new settings that you don’t know about.
Oh hey, let's run an experiment then. I'm not a Windows poweruser, but I have an access to it. Let's see, in almost real time, how long it will take me to find how to change Wi-Fi power save setting (I don't know what it is, so very fair this way).
Well, it's a setting, so let's go where settings are. I go to a big menu, find settings in it, assume wifi is in network settings, go there, find wifi setting. Read through all the menus. Nothing. I'm 5 menus deep, and there is "more adapter options button". It asks an admin password, so let's give it to it. Completely different window opens, one that I saw all those years ago in Windows XP. It's called wifi 3 properties. It doesn't render properly on my monitor, the text is blurry, but we're not in "googling shit" territory yet so I power through. (later I found out that it's normal, this menu was constructed when 640x480 was considered high def resolution, and it struggles with modern screens). In this menu there is 12 rows of something, I don't know what QoS Packet Scheduler means or what Client For Windows does. Let's press configure on this one. That menu closes, it asks ominous question, and new one opens. It assures me that the device is working properly, and in advanced tab there is 24 different settings I can change. Settings like "Fat Channel Intollerant" (It is disabled. I don't know if it's good or bad), or Human Presence Detection (it's auto. I assume it's something related to the upcoming robot uprising). There is no help, there is no explanation, I lost count how deep I am, it's more than 10. I'm like half an hour in, probably. I checked all the available settings. I forgot what I'm looking for and had to re-read your comment to remind myself. But at least I don't have to edit a text file, amirite?
Ok, fuck it, let's google. First link.
I cry for a minute, click the link, the list isn't there. I still don't know what to click, and the link is about Intel. Is my wifi adapter made by intel? Do I need to know it? Let's google further.
Stack overflow.
Click yours. So I do need to know it. OK, let's do that. I should've guessed that you don't find setting in settings, it's intuitive after all.
It looks like one of the menus that I saw already, but it's not, it's different one. It once again assures me that the device is working properly. There is no settings. There is no Power Management Tab. Let's google that then.
Mycrosoft forums.
Well, the answer is 4 years old. My drivers are up to date, so that doesn't help. Let's dig further. Another post on the Microsoft forums.
Damn, I am sure glad I don't have to edit any text files, that would be unintuitive as fuck. Anyway, let's open regedit and create some new DWORDs, shall we? That would not be a problem, regedit is easy and intuitive program that allows very easy way to intuitively do anything.
Anyway, it didn't help. Turns out it stopped helping at some point. Further in the Microsoft forums people offering helping powershell scripts that I need to run in Elevated Powershell to do...something, I assume? It changes some register keys, it's not obvious what.
At this point, I give up. I am easily hour in, I don't know how to change wifi power safe setting in Windows, and I am afraid I will never know. Sure glad I didn't have to edit one symbol in a text file the name of which is easily googlable.
You have so thoroughly captured the Windows experience. Bravo!
Well the comparison I'd draw is not even needing to worry about that kind of thing on Windows. I went from getting about 200 to 300 Mbps on Windows without doing anything besides connecting to a network to getting 10 to 30 Mbps on Pop!_OS and Linux Mint (Before fixing this issue.)
The strength of Windows is not easy access to more settings (especially after they split the setting between the new settings app and the old control panel), it's not needing to access most of them in the first place. That will vary between users and use cases of course. Some people moved to Linux well before the enshittificafion of Windows got really bad because it suits their needs better.
Well, that's moving the goalpost, isn't it? We started with "Linux bad because reading hard" and "Windows good because mouse click boxes easy" and now we're in "windows is just works, no need to change anything".
Well guess what, this is also not true, you do constantly need to fiddle with Windows, it's just sometimes you can't edit what you need, and you're out of luck.
Next time, try OpenSuse
No terminal required.