[jebblue]

I consult a lot which means I often have to use a Windows desktop because the IT staff needs it to run Office for people who only know one email client. I mostly work in Linux usually in a VM in these case. To you point, on a new machine designed to run Windows 7, 3 times in the past few months I plug in my external keyboard and it fails. The only resolution is to reboot the windows machine. At least once I've had my USB headset fail, had to reboot Windows. In the past year on a different machine also designed to run Windows I could not get it to detect my Android phone while my Ubuntu desktop has never failed on 3 different machines running Ubuntu.

When people say in any thread that Windows driver support is superior to Linux; the answer from my experience on a number of machines is still no.