When I was first getting into IT, I was trying to configure a low-end 'soho' cisco modem. It had a java-app webpage for configuration... which only ran on windo

When I was first getting into IT, I was trying to configure a low-end 'soho' cisco modem. It had a java-app webpage for configuration... which only ran on windows/IE (couldn't be forced to load elsewhere), was missing two-thirds of the device's capabilities, and was just generally awful. I asked a netadmin friend for some advice, and he said "Oh, that thing is just there to tick boxes - no techie would ever use it. 'Does it have a GUI configurator?' -> box ticked". Meanwhile the techies just configured the modem like any other bit of cisco equipment: via the console.