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In my experience having to use the terminal also applies to windows.
If you haven’t had to at least use sfc /scannow to fix the OS having randomly microsofted to shit I assume you’re not regularly using windows…
Also everything being where you least expect it. Did the program install to Program Files\program, Program Files\publisher\program, Program Files (x86)\program, Program Files (x86)\publisher\program, Program Files\Common Files\program, Program Files\Common Files\publisher\program, Program Files (x86)\Common Files\program, Program Files (x86)\Common Files\publisher\program, %appdata%\program, %appdata%\publisher\program, %localappdata%\program, %licalappdata%\publisher\program, C:\program…?
Are the files somewhere in My Documents? In the program’s installation folder? Somewhere in %appdata%? On the desktop? Kidnapped by OneDrive because you forgot to opt out of the “backup” that deletes your system folders and moves them to the cloud, only to immediately complain that you’re using too much space and have to pay a ransom to access them? Windows search certainly won’t help you find them, though it might give you similarly named bing results…And let’s not forget about system configuration… is the setting you’re looking for on the new settings app, the control panel, the registry, group policies, some weird powershell incantation, the task manager’s startup section (!?), the task scheduler, the services manager, the device manager, the computer manager, the disk manager, the old msconfig tool, some random contextual menu, some random management console add-on, some old forgotten executable or cpl in System32 (did you know the old windows 3.11 dialer is still there)…?
For every one of those options you’re almost guaranteed to find at least one or two settings that can only be configured through that particular tool, and I’m sure I’m forgetting some…



Yes.