my life with Ubuntu - well if the graphics card didnt' work (everything scrunched up into an interference pattern at the top of the screen), the soundcard wasn't working. I'd fix the soundcard, there'd be a kernel update and the soundcard would break. then I'd spend hours trying to get the machine to talk to the windows machines via samba... doing the same(!) things over and over again according to the instructions and it not working ...then suddenly it would. then the soundcard would break again. then the graphics did the top of the screen dance..

I gave up at that point.

Windows. it really just does Work.