Ubuntu Mic still broken

Over six months after I had to fix my Mic configuration so it even works in Ubuntu I see the latest Ubuntu release still ships with it broken. Poor QA is the only reason holding Ubuntu back!

Ubuntu ships with the Mic disabled, so you need to manually fix it. The default Mixer configuration has Mic Capture disabled. So you need to go into the Terminal and make these changes to fix it:

$ alsamixer

You will see the [Playback] sliders. Use the arrow key to move right to the column named as "capture", at the top left of the screen it will now say Capture Mux. Set it to "25==25" which should be 1/4 white bar.

Next press Tab key, press arrow key to move to the first "capture" column, at the top it shows "Capture", set it to "7==7". Press Space bar to enable it and show "CAPTUR" in red.

Press right arrow key to move to the next "Capture", at the top left it shows "Capture Mux", set it to "25==25".

Next press right arrow key to move to "input", press up/down arrow key so this shows "Mic" and not "Front Mic" or "Line".

.. and we're done :)