Simple while showing up shell commands don't combine for the crowd I am speaking of.
> Regarding performance, on the other hand Linux/BSD still don't match macOS real time audio capabilities.
It's better to say that you were wrong at this point then to try to shift yr statement to a popularity contest instead of the soft-realtime latency contest you, YOU, started with.
The macOS kernel doesn't require any of this, it just works.
No audio professional using Apple hardware needs to learn these workarounds to actually do their work.
You keep repeating this. But no one said this is not the case.
Only change allowed is installing drivers during user friendly tooling that any random user that just got their first laptop today is able to do.
Failure to understand this, is why we are getting Year of Desktop Linux any day soon.
Naturally there are other areas that BSD/Linux do better out-of-the-box, without requiring customized kernels.
(Not at a debian box to look up the start menu item name, and I don’t use the GUI these days...)