Simple. I offered an alternative that some people think is they way to get by with a lot less cash invested in a computer and have one that performs well in the high stress music recording environment. One guy had a 7 year old core I5 with 8 gigs of ram and said he had never gotten over 30% of system resource use, when using Linux on a Windows 10 computer. I’m no computer expert, but several guys said that when using Linux and those bypassing all of the windows “drivers” you not only saved TONS of system resources, but also bypassed all the “driver conflicts” “Driver compatibility issues” and other items Windows suffer from.
You were probably joking, maybe not. But you laughed at the suggestion. I said, ok then, get yourself a Mac. The only reason I haven’t been recording for years now is I tried and failed with windows PCs to the point I gave up, and wasn’t willing to drop $2K on a computer then disable everything else on it so that all it could do is record. Just a couple years ago, most people said you couldn’t “multi-task” with a computer and needed to do all sorts of things to make the computer suitable for recording only.
Maybe it’s all my fault. One of my laptops was brand new and top spec at the time, and would never function with the $500 pro tools +MBox I bought, even after a guy who WORKED for Digidesign tried for a whole weekend to make it work. HE basically concluded it was “driver incompatibility.” That MBox wouldn’t function with that or the next PC I had and now is worthless. I recorded 2-3 things with it but it constantly locked up the computer. The “Happy Birthday thing was done with that, and another thing I did right afterwards that was better, but it froze during recording and I missed the whole performance.