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>Audio buffer underruns galore AFAIK, this was also due to the disk IO scheduler used in Linux. Back in the late 00's, audio or video playback would skip on U
by ChuckNorris89 4y ago
>Audio buffer underruns galore
AFAIK, this was also due to the disk IO scheduler used in Linux.
Back in the late 00's, audio or video playback would skip on Ubuntu if you had a torrent download on the same HDD, an issue not present under Windows or MacOS.
AFAIK, desktop Linux distros now have different schedulers to mitigate this issue, but back then, that made it impossible for me to use it.
- pengaru 4y agoBack in the early days that was a problem as well, but things were better for quite some time even with dmcrypt in play. Then someone at Google landed a change prioritizing dmcrypt throughput for their use case, and many on desktop linux using dmcrypt suffered for years because of it.
- ahartmetz 4y agoAh, the "Linux is for servers" problem. Linus thinks the desktop is important, but most contributors work for companies that do server stuff or have mostly server paying customers...
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoLinux has better RT performance than windows or macOS (or almost anything else that isn't actually an RT OS). That took a lot of work and it didn't come from the server crowd.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoSure, but that doesn't necessarily translate into a great desktop experience, for which Windows and MacOS are purposely built.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoDepends on what you run on your desktop. If it's real time audio software, it makes for a great desktop experience.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoNot if you IO multitask on the same HDD.