Best way to run Snakeoil?

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Hi,

I wanted to try out snakeoil. A couple of newbie questions plese:

1. Anyone managed to run snakeoil in a virtual machine in a Synology NAS? If so, is the sound quality impacted at all?

2. I see that snakeoil is also available for the Raspberry PI. Running on the PI vs running on a PC - which has the better sound quality?

Thanks
flip

Best way is:
1. Native Ubunutu (This is because of custom kernel, e.g. Real Time kernel). Or Raspberry Pi via Raspbian
2. Via a Linux container (LXC). You get native CPU speeds, but lose the ability of a custom RT kernel
3. Run it as a virtual machine (this requires you to pass through some CPU features and hardware over).

As for sound quality. It's entirely subjective. Objectively the above is ranked in order, subjectively anything is possible.

Thanks Agent Kith. 

When u say linux Ubuntu do you mean i install snakeoil os on a pc? Or do i need to preinstall ubuntu first? 

I dont have a rpi. Would need to get one. But which rpi should i get for good result and how much ram? Would a rpi3 or rpi4 works better? 

A thin client used cost alot cheaper than an rpi. Would using this thin client be better? Since it can run the actual linux?