> If you put a bad CD in it you can lock the whole window manager up while it's thrashing the CD to be head or tales of it. Sometimes crash it. I remember visi

> If you put a bad CD in it you can lock the whole window manager up while it's thrashing the CD to be head or tales of it. Sometimes crash it. I remember visiting a relative's house a few years ago and noticing that they were very fastidious about removing a game CD from the drive when they weren't using it to improve performance. I thought it was a bit silly, as surely no OS would slow down dramatically just because a CD was in the drive. Of course, this was because I had been using Linux pretty much exclusively for quite a while. The Windows machine (running 7, if I recall) actually was really slow to open file dialogs and other basic things as long as the disc was in the drive. There was nothing wrong with the disc, its just that lots of things synchronously accessed it and weird times. I made me realize just how much less unpleasant OSes had become since I left that platform.