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** For the matter, the hard drive activity light. While useful back when computers really only did one thing at a time and unreliable, modern computers and their software tend to always be doing something - usually completely unrelated to what the user is doing.
*** They are now again quite useful for solid state disk, due to the lack of auditory feedback. Otherwise, you just wouldn't ''know'' when it's the disk that slows your system to a crawl.
** The [https://web.archive.org/web/20090713164846/http://www.compiz.org/ Compiz] window manager, available for most Linux distributions, allows the user to install plugins to alter the appearance and behavior of most everything on their desktop. Some of these [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhHCl8j_RbU plugins] are very [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6cQozuoS5I trippy].
** One third-party program for managing a proprietary archive format<ref>a program that opened and created files used only by one very specific piece of software</ref> demonstrated why this is so common: when told to create a new file, it would not display anything. Not even a little window saying "Creating file". It would only display a message upon ''completing'' the file. Some users of the software thought it was broken or had stalled, when in fact the file was large enough that the operation wasn't done instantly. In other words, the program worked perfectly, but some thought it was broken, because of lack of feedback, meaningless or otherwise.
* Parodied by [[Stephen Colbert]], who described defragmenting your hard drive: "A program where your computer moves a bunch of rectangles around to make you feel better." Tragically, Vista's defragger has lost the colored rectangles, and 7's didn't bring them back.
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