As much as I love Microsoft/Windows for the work they have put into WSL, I ended up just putting Kubuntu on my devices and use QEMU with GPU passthrough whenever I need Windows. Gaming perf is good. You need an iGPU or a cheap second GPU for Linux in order to hand off a 4090 etc. to Windows (unless maybe your motherboard happens to support headless boot but if it's a consumer board it doesn't). Dual boot with Windows always gave me trouble.
First I thought it was hardware related in a Remote Desktop session leading me to think some weird audio driver thing
have you encountered anything like this at all?
I've done this on both a hackintosh and void linux. I was so excited to get the hackintosh working because I honestly hate day desktop linux, it's my day job to work on and I just don't want to deal with it after work.
Unfortunately both would break in significant ways and I'd have to trudge through and fix things. I had that void desktop backed up with Duplicacy (duplicati front end) and IIRC I tried to roll back after breaking qemu, it just dumps all your backup files into their dirs, and I think I broke it more.
I think at that point I was back up in Windows in 30 mins.. and all of its intricacies like bsoding 30% of the time that I either restart it or unplug a usb hub. But my Macbooks have a 30% chance of not waking up on Monday morning when I haven't used them all weekend without me having to grab them and open the screen.
https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=25556
Could be completely unrelated though, RDP sessions can definitely act up, get audio out of sync etc. I try to never do pass through rdp audio, it's not even enabled by default in the mstsc client IIRC but that may just be a "probably server" thing.
Crackle would happen so rarely that I KNOW it definitely happened but it wasn't like a 2 day thing it was probably like, once in a year or 6 months, etc.