Windows and Mac has flexibility too. You could pay for software on Windows/Mac and find it doesn't meet your needs. Often many software vendors for Windows end

Windows and Mac has flexibility too. You could pay for software on Windows/Mac and find it doesn't meet your needs. Often many software vendors for Windows end up selling something akin to spyware. Really what it comes down to is what distro you choose, and audio hasn't been an issue for probably 10 years. Recent changes with Pulse Audio and then Pipewire makes audio "just work". You have to also remember that both Mac and Windows don't come without pain points and often I see people that are "set in their ways" simply because they don't like change, not because Windows/Mac makes things inherently easier. I personally find at this point Linux to be easier to get things done quickly. For example, with Windows installing the OS and then multiple updates, then re-configuring settings to disable telemetry, online account notifications, driver update shenanigans where Windows reverts drivers, etc takes far longer. Once you have a good dotfile setup on Linux things are a breeze. Windows unattended setups are just as frustrating. With Linux, everything is scriptable in a more common sense fashion from my experience. With Windows, depending on the tool you have to use Powershell, VBScript, Batch, or some half-baked EXE to get things done.