Judging by the speed that Justin addresses reproducible issues I would say it is a very real committent.
For linux audio in general you can do a lot with modest hardware. Very recent hardware can sometimes be problematic because it takes someone to write a patch and add it to the kernel, and then you need to receive that new kernel. Depending on your distro this could be very quick or not so much.
Download a distro you like the look of, avlinux would be a good place to start if you want to test audio things, write it to a usb stick and boot in to it, you can try it live.
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