WHY KEEP TRYING

to work with audio on Windows? I’ve been running Linux and/or BSD for almost 4 years now, and never, not once, have I had a crash. But doing audio production on anything but Windows/Mac is an exercise in futility at this point, especially if you use software synthesizers and effects. It’s getting better with time, but it’s still not there unless you want to do academic noise experimentation or ‘three chords and a broken heart’ singer-songwriter bullshit. So I installed Windows for the first time in a long while 6 months ago:

iTunes ate almost my entire music collection.

Never on Linux/BSD have I had a userland app eat my data.

With time, I conveniently forgot the hellishness that is Windows and, seduced by the siren song of my Superior 2.0 drums and a fat Minimoog, I installed it again. It ran OK for three days, one of which I was booted into Slack for most of the day, then:

Spectatcular crash [Black Screen of Death] while running REAPER with 3 tracks. 3 tracks! How can I trust this to do any actual work?

I am too broke to buy a Mac. I am fooked.