4 ms·
I can't comment on Office, Adobe and Visual Studio, but for Ableton or any other DAW, I would certainly choose macOS over Windows. Audio runs much smoother on M
by rebolek 3y ago
I can't comment on Office, Adobe and Visual Studio, but for Ableton or any other DAW, I would certainly choose macOS over Windows. Audio runs much smoother on Mac than on Windows. Lower latency, less dropouts, better overall stability from my experience.
Too bad that audio is total joke on Linux. There's very good software, like BitWig and Reaper, but the audio subsystem is total mess doing random stuff all the time. PipeWire seems promising but there are still problems. Maybe one day.
- nullindividual 3y agoThe Windows Audio Stack had improvements in Win 10 for latency. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/audio/low-latency-audio https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/a...
- callalex 3y agoFrom personal experience, it definitely got better in Win10 but it is still not as consistently low-latency and stutter-free. I think there are just too many audio pipeline features (some of which are really quite nice and useful for non-music users) built into the OS to provide the same level of baseline performance, and each feature adds more obscure configuration gotchas.