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This is one of the reasons I really like the Mikrotik network gear, because of the Winbox application for management. It's Windows Forms (GDI) in the MDI style

This is one of the reasons I really like the Mikrotik network gear, because of the Winbox application for management. It's Windows Forms (GDI) in the MDI style of most Windows apps of circa 2000. Lightning fast, responsive, and with nice touches like being able to drag files on/off the interface to upload/download and the ability to copy/paste entries like they were lines in a text file. I know why the web for UI took over, but I sure do miss Windows forms-based applications. The web is fine for the UI to a bank or some other tool you don't interact with that often, but for tools where you can spend hours working inside, browser-based interfaces are terrible.

theamk 3y ago
Also unusable by many people - I see mostly macbooks around me, with some Linux laptops or Chromebooks. Windows is for those super-low-privileged users who cannot be trusted with their own system and need IT to manage them; or for gamers. And yes, I can probably run the management software in wine, but I will avoid it if I can.
- briHass 3y ago
  They recommend and 'support' running it in Wine. I haven't tried, but I'm sure it works fine given Wine tends to work best with no frills Win apps from a decade ago.