[Les Cargill[_5_]]

Tobiah wrote:
Why do you feel the need change change your computer (a downgrade in
this particularÂ* model instance) that may render your current software
unusable, or at least complicated to get it to work.

Mostly because it's a Unix system.Â* I'm a programmer
by trade, and I spend a lot of time on the command
line.Â* I dual boot Linux and live there for anything
except music.Â* I banged my heart at Linux audio for
enough years.Â* I spent all my time configuring and
none creating. Also my favorite interface is not
yet supported.

So I use Cygwin on Windows to get a decent shell,
but it's a band-aid on a band-aid.Â* I wanted to
be on a Unix OS where I'm comfy, with real audio
support.


Well, it's emerging. I use UinxUtils and Mingw on
a Windows box my own self; it's good enough.

At work, I too use cygwin and it's definitely
good enough.

Also, a couple of fellow developers at work are
Mac heads and I've seen them use them for years.
I found that it looked like an attractive alternative.


The bang for buck is still strongly with Wintel. I can't
tell if Mac is truly more seamless for audio. For say, $1200
you can build a machine that's nearly too much machine. And
you can knock that down and still have a respectable machine.

Hang out on PcPartPicker a bit. And there's always Hackintosh.

I do see people on the Reaper Reddit using Reaper on Mac. At
that point, why bother?

Now, I also wanted a seamless audio production
experience.Â* I'll take into account some of the comments
that have been made here.


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Les Cargill