Comment by 999900000999

A lot of VSTs really don't work well with Wine. I also really just don't want to fight with wine. I haven't had a good experience with it outside of gaming via Steam.

I hate external drives with a passion. Unless the computer itself is stationary, like a Mac Mini.

My current setup is a 400$ laptop plus a 2 TB I brought for about 100$.

It's not perfect, but it's good enough for me.

If I move on from this, it's straight to a 1TB Macbook. You have a degree of assurance things will work on a Mac.

On Windows and Linux no one knows why your audio isn't working.

With Apple ONE company is responsible.

Most people never install an OS. So unless valve or someone comes out with a $400 Linux book, Linux is going to remain a niche OS.

However, I do believe Linux can grant a lot of "obsolete" Windows laptops a second life. I'd love to donate to a charity that rehabs old Windows laptops with Linux.

For light programming, and email, a 100$ used laptop off eBay is probably enough. At 250$ I've seen a lot of very capable machines.