I hear you about the audio part. I do electronic music as a hobby - I'm not much of a keyboard player, but I do a lot of editing and tweaking using a digital audio workstation program (DAW).
Whenever I look for stuff in user forums, it seems like it's always the folks on Windows who are having a devil of a time getting audio drivers and stuff to play nice. I can't imagine dealing with all of the nagware popups and such on Windows, either, when trying to run a song. Sounds like the kiss of death if you were ever performing.
I have been using Linux since 1995, but switched over to OSX (Macs) about 5 years ago. Commercial audio products generally don't work on Linux. Maybe you can get Reaper to work under WINE, but good luck getting any licensed soft-synths to run (maybe, but I never tried). I'm sure you can "muzzle" some of Windows more annoying nagging and such, but I have other things to do than get an MSCE cert - paying triple for a laptop to Apple every 5 years or so turns out to be cheaper and faster than keeping up with MS internals :-(
Back to the main topic: I've developed a vested interest in the last few years of seeing OSX continue to thrive. I hope Apple doesn't kill it by continuing to make reckless changes to the hardware and/or software.
Whenever I look for stuff in user forums, it seems like it's always the folks on Windows who are having a devil of a time getting audio drivers and stuff to play nice. I can't imagine dealing with all of the nagware popups and such on Windows, either, when trying to run a song. Sounds like the kiss of death if you were ever performing.
I have been using Linux since 1995, but switched over to OSX (Macs) about 5 years ago. Commercial audio products generally don't work on Linux. Maybe you can get Reaper to work under WINE, but good luck getting any licensed soft-synths to run (maybe, but I never tried). I'm sure you can "muzzle" some of Windows more annoying nagging and such, but I have other things to do than get an MSCE cert - paying triple for a laptop to Apple every 5 years or so turns out to be cheaper and faster than keeping up with MS internals :-(
Back to the main topic: I've developed a vested interest in the last few years of seeing OSX continue to thrive. I hope Apple doesn't kill it by continuing to make reckless changes to the hardware and/or software.