I'm coming off of an
entire weekend spent trying to get acceptable latency for audio recording in Linux. Just a midi controller to play a simple 3x oscillator VST with better than 250ms latency was my test case.
I tried different versions of Ubuntu, Debian, different kernels, different window managers, different graphics drivers, stripping things out of the system etc.
After going down the rabbit hole, I finally ripped out pulseaudio and replaced with ALSA.
In Windows or MacOS I would have been up and running immediately.
Now I'm completely burnt out and the creative urge is long gone.
Linux is my daily driver and I love it, but my god, some things are still way more fucking difficult than they need to be.
It reminds me of screwing around 20 years ago with wifi ndiswrapper stuff or multimonitor xrandr incantations.
I tried different versions of Ubuntu, Debian, different kernels, different window managers, different graphics drivers, stripping things out of the system etc.
After going down the rabbit hole, I finally ripped out pulseaudio and replaced with ALSA.
In Windows or MacOS I would have been up and running immediately.
Now I'm completely burnt out and the creative urge is long gone.
Linux is my daily driver and I love it, but my god, some things are still way more fucking difficult than they need to be.
It reminds me of screwing around 20 years ago with wifi ndiswrapper stuff or multimonitor xrandr incantations.