Luckily it's hard to break legs in firum wars! ;-)

Yeah, I just don't care at all about Mac. I just want Linux.

michaelhanson
Some of us live in Texas where we will make a bigger glass and have no problem filling it up.

Amen, Brother. I just want to know what is IN the glass.

Yup... here's to SPlat (and its ancestors) along with some big glasses.    And whatever goes in them. 
 
 

Sonar. Approved by Flipper.

I personally feel that until Linux gets dedicated (closed) sound drivers your results will be hit and miss with ALSA drivers. I think we needed dedicated low latency drivers like RME have made for Linux platforms; again you are still developing for two different style of distributions ... Redhat and Debian variants. 
 
Creative did have some Linux beta drivers for the E-MU range although nothing ever came to fruition really AFAIK. 
 
Another problem I would have is, direct hardware support for DSP, Dongle-based licenses and as Anderton mentioned cross-platform coding issues. Perhaps this could be resolved by using a wrapper to convert from Mac or Windows native code.
 
Then again, what did I knew?
 
 

interpolated
I personally feel that until Linux gets dedicated (closed) sound drivers your results will be hit and miss with ALSA drivers.

Wouldn't Class Compliant interfaces do the trick? My RME works great in CC mode.

Sonar works well for me, in the content that I use it.
 
Is it perfect? No, but neither am I, ....... just ask my wife!!  lol
 
I do appreciate that the Bakers are always striving to improve our beloved DAW. That speaks volumes to me about the company and it's dedication to their product and customers.

joel77
I do appreciate that the Bakers are always striving to improve our beloved DAW. That speaks volumes to me about the company and it's dedication to their product and customers.

Actually they're just being selfish, they all use SONAR I can imagine the conversations in the break room...
 
Seth: "Hey Noel, it really sucks you can't recall mixes like that SSL I used to work on."
Noel: "Hmmmmmmm..."

I imagine if they ever develop a fully fledged USB 3.1 (C) sound interface they will be much reduced limits and use extra bandwidth to fully process the low latency data in DSP, it should "relatively" to create a driver that can be coded for all platforms. A bit like the AMD thing where you can program the interface directly, so it behaves the same on all platforms.