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My biggest pain points with Linux have mostly been audio related. Audio is serviceable for general users but whenever it comes to either professional audio work or high end consumer audiophile stuff, Mac and Windows unfortunately blow Linux out of the fucking water at this point in time.
Heh I was about to post the exact opposite ... now, it's true that if you want to use certain DAWs and plugins, they're not available on Linux ... but with Ardour, Reaper or Bitwig you still have some very amazing DAWs at your disposal and there are many great plugins available.
Other than that I frequently perform as a laptop musician on stage (with my own software) and I wouldn't want to use anything but Linux anymore. Pipewire + a class-compliant Interface, esp. on Arch (btw), seems to be the most rock-solid combination I know of ...
Drivers on Windows seem to be so consumer-oriented that they try to do all kinds of stuff for you and I wouldn't trust it at all in a live situation ... everything seems to be way to fragile. MacOS is stable but I find the configurability is lacking behind.
When it comes to multichannel audio, I don't think anything can beat Pipewire or JACK ... free system-level anywhere-to-anywhere routing is so much better than the whole aggregate device + blackhole dance you have to do on MacOS ... it's super inconvenient if you ask me (and I've been developing multichannel audio software for a living for some time).
So, yeah ... It all depends on your needs but for me, as someone who develops audio software both professionally and for their own music practice, and performs frequently, I'd say it's the other way 'round ... Linux, in 2026, blows everything out of the water audio-wise ...