With audio production you're strongly advised against buying older hardware. As computer technology changes, audio software incorporates more powerful and power hungry features. See if using linux means you get an outdated solution at best, that discourages a lot of even relatively tech savvy people from even trying to make they DAW computer a linux machine because their motherboard or gpu or whathaveyou is too new and doesn't reliably work in linux.sql_error_uname wrote:with linux you need to buy some older hardware then everything works out of the box.
but it will improve as it did over the last decades.
with windows you need drivers for everything … see the difference ?
And especially prosumer and pro audio interfaces often don't work with linux at all. It's not a main requirement for the lion's share of that 2% market share of linux machines, and so you find very few distros that even have some form of support for advanced USB audio devices in the first place - and interface manufacturers also don't care about linux enough to support it. Vicious circle.