I don't really understand your criticism on those
convoluted layers upon
layers.
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/how-it-works-linux-audio-explained
read this to see how people outside this list view Linux audio
As for tweaking conf
files, at the moment there are very few files you might have to tweak,
/etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf (or /etc/security/limits.conf) for the
necessary permissions, maybe /etc/systcl.conf for some performance gain
and /etc/fstab to add noatime to the necessary mounts.
yeah thanks, been there - done that -- sorry but that statement right
there is why most people working in music won't come anywhere near Linux
for production
Imho I think you can add conservatism, sheer ignorance
or simple denial
that stuff can be done with Linux;)
I'd say that 'simple denial' exists
on both sides of the issue ;)