Comment by ssl-3

Perhaps that's a theory.

In reality, my desktop does-everything Linux rig literally does everything. It's my ZFS file server/NAS, and VM host, and web-browsing machine, and gaming box, and it does everything else I do with a computer at home (except for routing, directly controlling 3D printers, and playing movies on the BFT).

Sometimes, especially when gaming, sound glitches. It's annoying to me when this happens. (It'd be far worse than annoying if I were doing serious audio work, but I am not.)

An RT kernel may help with that. Not by automagically adjusting buffers (or whatevers) for a glitch after it happens, but by preventing it from ever happening to begin with.

(And I intend to find out for sure if I ever get far enough into moving into this new place that I can plug my desktop back in, now that it is a mainlined feature instead of a potential rabbit hole.)