"The suggeation for a hardcore mode, makes sense. Enthusiasts and engineers tend to be the most vocal users of the operating system, and are forced to wade through swathes of irrelevant user-interface components and 'helpful' suggestions. Plummer's request is for "a first-class system-wide setting that flips the operating characteristics of the OS from safe and chatty to deterministic and terse.""
"Then there is control, which should be centralized in a single location. Plummer calls for an end to the "scavenger hunting" of determining a setting's location, and, once a setting is identified, it needs to be clear what it is changing. This would avoid what the engineer called "spelunking" through the Windows Registry to work out what happened behind the scenes."
""The tool change should grow some teeth" said Plummer. "If you flag yourself as a power user, then the OS takes you at your word and stops second-guessing you constantly.""
An optional hardcore mode should remove non-technical UI clutter, nudges, and unsolicited suggestions so power users encounter a deterministic, terse environment. Enthusiasts and engineers are currently forced to navigate irrelevant interface components, web search integration in local search, and persistent product nudging. Control must be centralized to prevent scavenger-hunting for dispersed settings and avoid spelunking through the Registry to understand changes. A clear power-user flag should make the OS stop second-guessing users. Settings must transparently show what they change so users can trust and verify system behavior while managing backward compatibility constraints.
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