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I just checked this out today, funnily enough. Most off-putting thing is how horrible the website is and how weird it is to get an actual .iso. Pure http link to an apache webserver makes me trust it less, I would rather it be a sourceforge link or anything else.

If people are looking for low latency audio I'd just use arch Linux with real time patches and then install jack alsa and whatever daws you want. Can't speak for video editing.

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> If people are looking for low latency audio I'd just use arch Linux with real time patches and then install jack alsa and whatever daws you want.

Don't cargo cult jack if you don't need it.

Use jack IFF you want to piece together a signal chain of various disparate low-latency applications.

If you just want to use a single low latency audio application, then just use alsa.

This is good advice for Linux-native applications, since jackd would be using ALSA anyway.

Wine applications may suffer from extra latency (40+ ms) when using ALSA directly, because Wine's ALSA driver uses hidden additional buffers. Using WineASIO with Jack will get around this, but setup can be painful.

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