I had to move to Linux and I must say I'm pleasantly surprised. There I was in Windows with no sound: Microsoft High Definition Audio is installed and working it said. But it wasn't. I searched high and wide all over the Internet and found others who had this same problem but had no solution. I became obsessed about not having sound. So I started tinkering, and to make a long tedious story short, peppy and full of win; I did a clean install of Windows, and when that didn't help, I decided to install Ubuntu 12 with some reservations; expecting some sort of configuration hell that I was going to be put through. But it was relatively painless. Ubuntu 12 looks great in my opinion, and it doesn't require a learning curve that's impossible to follow. In fact it's kind of fun. And best of all, I have sound. My laptop also has a SD card reader in it, and that didn't work flawlessly in Windows either. I have 2 cards: one normal SD and one newer SDHC card. The latter never worked in Windows, the first did for a time and then didn't anymore. Why? I don't know, but it's not like I don't know what I'm doing. Both cards work perfectly in Ubuntu 12. How is this acceptable that the software giant put me through driver hell and not deliver the goods in the end, whereas everything works the way it should in Linux. In my mind, Linux was AAA and Microsoft was the big leagues.
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