Hello.I have switched to the linux platform about a year ago - i love it so much...
It fullfils a great percent of my needs - from programming to almost anything.
I have been into music for quite sometime and own myself some hardware units too.
The software explosion the last 5 years for composition and synthesis in the window$ platform was unbelieavable - there w?re many  applications i loved there including this really beatiful tracker called Buzz, fruityloops , etc...
 
I have tried a lot of sound-sunthesis software for the linux platform but i must admit  
i wasn't thrilled. And i love being on this platform so much that i dont like switching to windows at all - the result is that music making has been quite on hold for this year....
 
After some deeper searching i did some exploration on Csound and i must admit that after rendering some soundfiles i was astounded by the sound quality and the infinite synthesis abilities - after some more searching i discovered RTCmix too which i havent yet tried
 
I would really love to transfer all my music making to this platform but there are some really important questions that i would hope to hear opinions for:
Are Csound - RTCMIX applications oriented towards COMPOSITION as well ?
I mean not only ambient music composition with abstract textures - i mean real time constructing and previewing of music with rich pattern content like electro or other dance fields --- In other words : Could i be able to replace windows - buzz -fruityloops -reason etc once and for all using lets say Csound ?  
Or would i wait for years to hear the effect of my changes in a *.sco file ?Do the front-ends availabla override such troubles?I am kinda puzzled about how real time is implemented on applications that crunch scripted text content as note data - for example in buzz changing a note in a pattern was pretty straghtforward - but here is a whole new world with pretty scattered documentation i am afraid.
 
I have all the will to delve inside the numerous csound features, but what scares me is the fact that i might be looking at (almost only)software sythesis oriented things while i am looking forward to replace the functionality aforementioned in the windows platform.I am nott looking for point and click stuff - in fact the aspect of learning something like a  sound sculpting language thrills me - but would that totally replace windows ?  
I would appreciate it if i was pointed to some links to perhaps dance music written with Csound or RTcmix - And of course i would really like to hear your opinion  
Thank you