well. personally for me, that's the lack of contemporary pro hardware support. right now i'm looking for a good USB audio intrface for my linux DAW... and i feel like i'm back in the mid-90s again. ugh. and the vast majority of supported hardware is low end. aaaarrrggh. but that's all. for windows way of audio production, people have windows, and for mac way, people have macs. haha :) could anyone on earth PROVE me that windows is REALLY easier to set up for ACCEPTABLE perfomance?? :))))) yep. terribly horrible thing. in fact, linux has better potential for building _specialized_ environments for certain task(s), since linux is nothing else than a construction set by it's nature. for instance, mine is constructed for running software synthesis with supercollider and realtime midi input.