I always find it interesting when I come across things that seem better from every technical point of view and I hate them, compared to something that seems tec

I always find it interesting when I come across things that seem better from every technical point of view and I hate them, compared to something that seems technically worse. I spent 15 years maintaining and developing a Windows application and I utterly despised interacting with the registry. It was a nightmare trying to find where a specific key should be written, what the format was meant to be, and browsing the thing with regedit was horrific. And then from a code point of view, win32 APIs for manipulating it were incredibly clunky. I was forever worried I'd accidentally corrupt the whole thing somehow and windows wouldn't boot any more. Meanwhile on linux I think from a technical point of view, slamming random bits of text into files scattered in random places all throughout the file system in undefined formats is a terrible idea. And I love it. I understand the whole linux configuration and internals so much better because I can browse around /etc and see how every piece of the system is set up.