Windows is Easier to Use than Linux

People don't believe me when I say Linux isn't any harder to use than Windows. So I'll quit saying it. Linux is harder to use than windows. For clarity, I'm speaking specifically about Ubuntu Linux, which is the one all first-timers should use. For further clarity, I'm being partially sarcastic.

Function	Linux	Windows
Logging On	To log on using Linux, you have to know your username. You have to be able to spell it. You have to know your password.	With the correct windows set-up, you have to recognize your name, OR the little picture you chose to represent you. Windows Vista has made it even easier: press enter.
Installing a new piece of Hardware	It will almost always, without fail auto detect. If it doesn't, got to synaptic and find some drivers, or run one of the hardware wizards from system menu.	Even if it DOES auto detect, you will need to be connected to the internet to download drivers. If id doesn't, there are wizards which don't work, or more likely, the software disc that came with the product. If you lost/damaged it, you are fucked. Installation from one of these discs has never,in my experience, taken less time than the Linux auto-detector.
signing on to MSN	Open Gaim. Enter your details. Decide if you want Gaim to log you on when the program starts, when the computer starts or when you tell it to.	Open MSN messenger, enter your details. MSN will now log you on without your consent whenever your puter starts.
Signing onto AIM/other.	Open Gaim. Enter you details.	Go to the internet. Find a suitable free program, download it. Install it, configure it, enter your details.
Installing	Insert the disc, wait for it to load up. Select run/install. If Linux will not work on your system, this is when you will find out. Otherwise (almost always): Go to start, click install, go through the two minute setup program, which asks nothing more technical that "what time zone are you in" and auto-detects ALL of your technical details. Watch it install in what is almost always less than an hour, reboot, start it up.	Enter the disc. Go through the hour-long, confusing, technical set-up, make sure you have your manuals in hand, because Windows may ask all kinds of technical questions. wait 24 hours for the thing to install (okay, sometimes it's as few as three). This, after at least three hours of shit is where you find out if it didn't work.
Finding and installing a piece of free, compatible software for a specfic purpose	Open either "add remove programs" or "synaptic" from the start menus, depending on how technical you want this to be. search for roughly what you want. All the programs listed are free forever, compatible with your system, recommended and downloaded from a fast secure server. Select the program you want. Read it's description. Click on the little checkbox next to it. Select apply. Wait a few minutes. The program is now installed and ready to go. It will only need a reboot if it is part of the kernel, which is never is.	Go to the internet. Search. Read through all the results carefully, to make sure you're not downloading trialware and that it's compatible with your system. Download it, possibly from a slow server. Unzip if any. VIRUS SCAN IT. Run the EXE. installation will vary depending on the program, it might not require installing, or it might require lots of configuration.

See how much easier to use Linux is? I mean Windows. Windows is. Yeah. Windows is eaiser to use. That was what I was trying to prove.

Cept it's not.