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Nos Newsgroups tem-se encontrado verdadeiras pérolas de ironia, de velhos pedidos de ajuda para os mesmos problemas de sempre, mas em novos (?????) SOs, de soluções para os Windows baseadas nas formatações dos PCs, como de costume, infestações de spyware e vírus...
Enfim, os anos avançam, mudámos de século e milénio, os sistemas evoluiram, mas os problemas no Windows são sempre os mesmos do século passado. Deixo aqui uma cópia dum post bem irónico, dum tal de Stephan:

Well it's true...Windows does rule!

Seriously...how could Linux ever compete? I mean, lets look at what I did today.

What did I do today? I decided to give my on-bard sound card a run instead of my Audigy 2. Was having some weird sound artifacts and wanted to rule out the sound card as being the source of the trouble (it wasn't, just a software config problem).

So...my experience under unbuntu after removing the Audigy and enabling the on-board sound:
It finished booting...I instantly had sound. I mean it sucked. What a horrible user experience! I didn't have to do ANYTHING!!!! It just WORKED! I mean...that's just horrible, where's the fun in that? How dare it just WORK like that?? That's just....wrong! This just totally sucks!

Now my (quite Wowing) experience under Windows:
Now Windows on the other hand got it right! Excellent user experience, really making the user feel like they are RESPONSIBLE for their machine and in control!! Yes!!! It was wonderful.

First I of course did NOT have sound with the new soundcard. Instead I was greeted with the "New hardware found" WIZARD! Didn't know my computer can cast spells...

So it tells me it found some "Audio on high definition audio bus" or some other thing like that. Allright...whatever. Now it asks me if I'd like it to check for drivers online so I click next....and go do something else for 5 minutes. Eventually it finally FINISHES! Do I have sound yet? Naw....just a message that it couldn't find any drivers or anything.

This is getting better and better by the minute!! Now I get to go search my motherboard driver CD that I haven't needed in 8 months. FUN!!!

CRAP! 15 minutes later....I still haven't found the CD...and I still have no sound!!! What to do...what to do...oh maybe the manufacturer will have it on their website?
Go to website...downloads...erm crap, now what exactly was my motherboards exact model number again?? I only have over a hundred to choose from! Luckily for me I actually remember!

Oh lookie! Now I get a list of 30 different various drivers to choose from! YAY!!! Erm...ok this one looks like it might work. Wait a second, 24 megabytes and the best I am getting is 80kb/s on my 6mbit connection from any of the mirrors?? Great! Time to like...go wash the car or do something else productive.

Yay!! Driver downloaded. Erm...zip file? Ok. open it. Run setup. What? Invalid operating system version? Wait a second!! I know I clicked on the right one! Oh wait...there is a subdirectory here. Oh nice!! 4 other different setups to choose from. Maybe one will work?

Ok after running the one that is most likely to work and that does not complain about the OS...REBOOT!!! I get to reboot my operating system!!! YES!!! I am in pure exctasy now! I mean how often does someone get to reboot their operating system!? Isn't that just WONDERFUL?

Wait for windows to shut down... Wait for windows to boot up... Yay!! I successfully installed my sound drivers!! See in this operating system, *I* am in control and have to actually MAKE the operating system do what I want it to do!! It doesn't just automatically do it for me, that'd be poor user experience. The Wow is definitely starting here.

Total time to get sound working under ubuntu: Operating system boot up time of a few seconds.
Total time to get sound working under windows: 30-45 minutes.

Yea, I can really see why windows is superior. Such an immersive user experience is definitely difficult to beat!!

Note to the sarcasm impaired: LOTS of it was used in this post. Matter of fact, it is drowning in it. Stephan

Fonte: alt.os.linux.ubuntu,microsoft.public.windows.vista.general