Microsoft is replacing Windows 10's Volume Mixer

I'm actually glad that they are changing it. It was never really good to begin with, besides the fact that it was smaller. Removing legacy stuff is necessary.
 
calling it "change for change's sake" is simply another vote for "don't change anything...I likes it the way it WAAAAASSSS!."
No! It is a vote to stop breaking user habits, and potentially dropping user control. In other words their change often dumbs-down the interface.
doesn't this give more control than the old one? and who cares about breaking user habits in this situation anyway, it's not like it's counter-intuitive or something that changes it so much that users don't understand what to do.
 
Removing legacy stuff is necessary.
Having control is necessary. The age and design not so much. The age and design falls more under unnecessary cosmetics. The shift to touch is the only thing making all these changes necessary. And I don't know of anyone who really wants touch on a desktop PC. Therefor making these changes for the sake of change in a desktop system.

doesn't this give more control than the old one?
I was speaking in general, this change is not so damning.
 
I think Microsoft need to stop messing with things like this because it causes more harm than good. It's like they get an idea and implement it, send it out and trash a bunch of peoples setups. After 17134 update my sound settings are mangled (main problem being no audio from stereo mix). I spent hours messing with drivers and got nowhere. The whole 2 ways (or more) of doing everything is a mess. The whole settings thing is a mess. If you want to do anything in Windows you have to ask can I find that in settings or shall I look in control panel.
 
I think Microsoft need to stop messing with things like this because it causes more harm than good. It's like they get an idea and implement it, send it out and trash a bunch of peoples setups. After 17134 update my sound settings are mangled (main problem being no audio from stereo mix). I spent hours messing with drivers and got nowhere. The whole 2 ways (or more) of doing everything is a mess. The whole settings thing is a mess. If you want to do anything in Windows you have to ask can I find that in settings or shall I look in control panel.
Trust me when I say this, but audio drivers are the most crappy drivers in the world, with printer drivers being the 2nd worst drivers ever. They're written so badly that even simple updates break them.
 
When I say that they're trying to emulate apple I mean in looks, I'm not sure the functionality is so much a concern as is making it appear more modern. The Skype For Business program is a great example of how little they understand (modernized look with reduced functionality). SFB is just a reskinned Lync that they somehow made worse.
Yeah gotcha mate.
I've seen similarities, although I'm just got into Apple's "world" in the last 2 years and got macOS Support Essential training on Sierra/High Sierra to become Apple Certified Support Professional (ACSP) on both systems (still waiting for Mojave).
From my point of view as a daily user of latest Windows 10 Pro/Enterprise and macOS Sierra/High S I can tell that both systems going to towards each other more or less and sometimes picking up the worse functionality to use and implement.
 
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Too complicated?
 
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