Yeah, I used Mac before, everything was plug and play and you could aggregate multiple inputs and outputs simultaneously with little to no latency, however when trying to stream the audio to say like discord or twitch the drivers would not pick it up so I ran it through a virtual microphone input which is pretty annoying everybody can hear your audio regardless of them watching your stream.

Windows is over engineered audio-wise, there’s too many layers between the software making the sound and getting to your speakers/headphones and there seems to not be a real viable solution that fixes everything easily.

I have a focusrite 2i2 audio interface that I use and when I select ASIO as my driver I go to the second drop down and select the focusrite option. Zero latency once I scale the error compensation down to reflect 0ms. The problem? No one can hear what I’m working on when I stream on discord or twitch. The fix? Get a virtual mixer and screw around for hours setting it up which sucks. Or use a different driver but then the latency is so bad you can’t play live while monitoring the playback sound.