I am actually somewhat aware of UbuntuStudio and its related technologies, and one of these days I will take a week or so to set up a spare machine. My original

I am actually somewhat aware of UbuntuStudio and its related technologies, and one of these days I will take a week or so to set up a spare machine. My original point was more about hardware than anything else. I do not think (please prove me wrong) that there is any DAW/hardware solution that actually offers true zero-latency monitoring (and I don’t mean direct hardware monitoring, which has been around for decades, I mean true analog-like near-zero latency monitoring of your input channels with effects, synced with your playback tracks) other than UA’s Luna system which was just released last year. I don’t mean to sound like a UA shill, but this (ARM - Accelerated Realtime Monitoring) is a brand new unprecedented technology that has and will revolutionize audio production. The caveat is that it only works with macOS - even though the Luna system is available with Windows, ARM is not and likely never will be. This can only work because of the extremely tight hardware/software integration and thunderbolt connectivity. Does UbuntuStudio or or anything in the *nix realm offer anything like this? I’m not just being oppositional - I am just truly unaware of an equivalent.