Not rubbish at all, just personal preference. Saying the words "Absolute rubbish" with no reasoning why, gives me the "I know nothing about music production" vibes. I will always like Cakewalk but can see that Ardour is on both windows and Linux. While you can get a version of cakewalk free, you still get Ardour free. Due to it being open source, if you really want to geek out, you can change the program as you see fit. I prefer the software as is but am curious about the Lua scripting as that can make productivity much faster and easier. As for windows 11, I'm not really worried about spyware as I have nothing to hide, it's really due to al the bloatware and background processes that annoy me as it makes it feel clunky in comparison. On boot, my system hits around 800MB and idles around 250MB.
