Windows haves given me a disease. To accurately describe this disease I will be coining the term WMAD or Windows Maintenance Anxiety Disease. On my Windows desktop, I always am running a defrag tool or the disk recovery utility when I am away from my computer, so I can use my wasted time to improve my PC’s performance.
Unfortunately, there is no need for a defragger in Ubuntu and the disk space recovery tool takes just a few seconds. It makes me feel uncomfortable leaving my computer running without it doing something for me.
I remember someone’s comment on a blog I read, “It’s amazing how a filesystem can be so screwed up that you have to use a program to put the files back together again.”
April 30, 2009 at 10:44 am |
Don’t worry. Soon enough you’ll get the UOTD or Ubuntu over-tweaking disease.
April 30, 2009 at 8:02 pm |
Yeah, I already think I’m infected…
But at least this disease is fun!
May 11, 2009 at 9:58 pm |
I too, suffer from WMAD. If my computer isn’t doing anything for me, like downloading stuff, running a background process, or defragging itself, I have an obsessive compulsive need to put it into standby/hibernate mode in a futile attempt to save power/increase life of my computer. Everything on my windows machine must be running perfectly and automated. However, it is windows. And unfortunately that’s hardly possible.