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Computers Top BBC List of Stress Producers

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the each-one-like-crying-babies dept.

twitter writes "The BBC is reporting results of a poll by UK charity Developing Patient Partnerships that shows crashing computers to be one of the most common stresses and that it's actually killing people by driving them to drink and smoke. The quoted list has: 1. IT problems - 30%, 2. Change in financial status/personal injury - 24%, 3. Commuting - 20%. I've seen people take a smoke break when their computer pops a window and they lose an hour or two of work and admins taking their break straight from the bottle."

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  1. Save your health... by mrchaotica · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...buy a Mac!

    (sorry, couldn't help it)

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  2. Solution by Kesch · · Score: 1, Troll

    They should have been more specific. I think they meant that Windows was the largest cause of stress.

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  3. Shouldn't that read... by iopha · · Score: 0, Troll

    Windows the top stress producer? Could a comparative study be done with, say, MacOSX users?

  4. Yes Indeed by Anti-Trend · · Score: 0, Troll
    In my case, I had the wife's PC dual-booting Windows 2000 Pro (more stable than XP, for the record) and Linux. One day she asks me, "Honey? Can you reformat my PC?" Here I'm thinking she's going to want me to remove her Linux partition to make more room for Windows, right? On the contrary, she thought Linux was "prettier" and "didn't crash all the time" and saw no reason to run Windows at all. Sweet. Since my wife's fateful judgement call a few years ago, we've been an all Linux household since - 6 systems at current count. The beautiful part is that I don't have to be the IT guy for my own home, everything just works. In fact she's been running the same installation for 2 years now, still runs as lean as the day it was installed. Now that I'll drink to. ;-)

    Cheers,

    -AT

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  5. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 0, Troll

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  6. Re:Blame Windows by tverbeek · · Score: 0, Troll

    I didn't flame you; I flamed the idiot you're married to. The one who - despite the fact that she uses a piece of equipment that is world-renowned for losing people's work - went two hours without saving her document. You can shriek all you want about how computers shouldn't lose your work if you don't manually save it, but anyone without a learning disability should know that they do, and take some measures to avoid it if that concerns them.

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