[PD] slightly OT- PD weirdness under Windows -32 and 64 bit - is Linux better?

[Scott R. Looney]

hey folks my PD on Windows saga continues. over the last day i've
experienced:

15 second MIDI input delay on MIDI port input (32 and 64 bit vanilla) -
Purr Data and the CEAMMC PD distribution had no issues. but for me using a
Roland UM-ONE very basic USB- MIDI interface, PD was effectively not
responding in even close to a timely manner. alll on PD 49.0

UI glitches in the CEAMMC matrix.ui object. the window containing it cannot
be closed or minimized without resulting in a glitch making it blank and
non-interactable. this is in both vanilla and CEAMMC distributions in 32
and 64 bit.

Alexander Porres' mtx.ctl object worked great in PD vanilla but with the
MIDI data delay i had, it was useless. switching to CEAMMC's PD build
resulted in much better MIDI input latency but ruined the layout of the
ELSE library's mtx.ctl object - back to the drawing board...

on top of that there's a subpatcher that cannot be opened at all. it's very
simple with numbers and [pack] objects. Windows shows that the window
exists but i cannot view it. this error occurs on every version of PD i've
tried on Windows, but works fine on the Mac. no other subpatchers are
affected however, as far as i can tell.

oh and switching to the ASIO driver produces horribly distorted audio,
although MMIO seems to work fine. the sound card is an Apogee Duet, as the
internal audio is pretty unusable.

so, i'm disappointed enough in the inconsistency of performance under
Windows(Win 10 64 bit Home on a ASUS ROG laptop with 16GB RAM) for what
seems like a basic setup that i'm wondering about giving Linux a chance.
this platform does VR audio and video fairly well but it seems like running
PD is more of an experimental afterthought than a robust performance
platform.

so i'm considering a switch to Linux and obviously it would have to have
good audio and MIDI performance, but i'd really like it to be easy to
install and configure with minimal console and shell scripting. any
recommends on some specific distributions? i had considered Hackintoshing
it and will have to replace the Wifi card with a more compatible one but if
there's an easy method to put a good performing Linux so i could dual boot,
i'd be very interested. of course with an Apogee Duet, i'll probably run
into the fact that the device isn't fully supported, as it seems to be. no
easy answers it seems...
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