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Which distro do you believe deserves more recognition?
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What you need to do is install Oracle Virtual box on your pc.
Then download a Linux distribution: I'd recommend Linux Mint
Install it virtually on Virtualbox.
Then connect your audio equipment to the pc and in Virtualbox use the menu to send that device from Windows to Linux.
Look for the menu called devices or something like that. It will just the various inputs it sees eg. Usb, SCSI, aux etc and you can select that and then select the attached device. That will send the device signal to Linux.
Then see if you can see the device in Linux.
If not research whether you need a driver or a particular application. The best place to ask about drivers is from the device manufacturer. If they don't exist anymore then Google it. Eg Linux driver for [device name] or Ubuntu driver for [device name]
If you can get it to work then you're set and you can install Linux as your main OS. or just use it in the VM. If there are no drivers and it doesn't work, stay on Windows.
Just be aware it's the device manufacturer that should make the driver, whether for Windows or Linux. Sometimes the Linux community will make their own driver if the OEM doesn't. I haven't seen that happen on Windows. On Windows if the OEM doesn't make one, you either use an old one or get a new audio device 🤷