The irony of progress indicators like the sunburst here is that everything okd is new again In the Before Times your UNIX would have a progress bar that was ba

The irony of progress indicators like the sunburst here is that everything okd is new again In the Before Times your UNIX would have a progress bar that was basically the same spinning icon: overwrite - \ | / - \ | / in the same character location in quick succession. It was as useless then as the spinning sunburst is now. The linear indicator provides two bits of information: that something is happening, and that progress is being made towards completion. The sunburst only provides one.