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Either that or they were added at different times by two different teams with two different design philosophies.
It's definitely that one
yeah a fresh windows 11 install has like 20 different control panels, all built at different times by different teams using different UI toolkits. It's basically their philosophy to not unify anything but instead just keep bolting new things to different pieces of the OS, no matter how similar
It's because they don't want to break compatibility with existing software. Which I understand, because if they broke old software then people could just migrate to Linux as well
Reminds me of that story about Windows's format dialog. It's on Xitter, so here's the text:
Might have been at the same time even
Yes that was the old Microsoft. The new Microsoft has fixed that problem All teams share the same design philosophy. >!Enshitification!<