I can’t even play a .wav file in Audacity anymore without it skipping constantly, on a 2 GHz machine with 2 GiB of memory. Works fine in Windows. I find it very hard to believe that anyone has ever used Ubuntu to produce music.
Documenting my experience with Ubuntu.
A response to those who claim that desktop Linux is "stable", "reliable", "easy to use", "Just Works", or is somehow better than Windows.