Who knows whether it actually fixed anything

https://aprogrammerlife.com/top-rat...

it didn't "fix" anything, because "fixing" wasn't its job.

"optimising" was its job. and that in fact it did do.

@tosensei > "optimising was its job. and that in fact it did do"

These darn kids will never know the joy of de-fragmenting the drive and saving a minute of a 5 minute boot time (Windows 3.1/Win95).

well it WAS running faster after those long 5 hours of this hypnotizing-to-watch process. So I guess YES

@PaperTrail dude, you're missing the point. the joy - all of it - was in watching the defragger do its job and listen to the sounds that your drive would make while doing so.

speeding up the boot time was actually a downside, because it meant your coffee wasn't ready when your pc was.

Super satisfying

I found a good replacement with SSDs:

sudo fstrim -av

Doesn't make things faster if there is also a weekly automatic trim anyway, as in many Linux distros, but it allows to keep the habit.