Having audio gear work on linux continues not be be a given, but it is a lot better than it was in the firewire and early USB2 days. On the firewire side, the

Having audio gear work on linux continues not be be a given, but it is a lot better than it was in the firewire and early USB2 days. On the firewire side, the devices that worked under linux still work under linux while those some devices tend not to have the ability to work on current macs and windows machines. That makes them really cheap, often (but RME stuff defies that).