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You should use Ardour, it's a DAW with native linux version. It's free for Linux users and it's a free software.
LMMS isn't really a DAW, as it can't really manipulate audio easily, only midi. Reaper and Bitweeg have native Linux version but aren't free softwares.
Windows Vst are running fine on linux these days, but on Linux there are a lot of audio plugins on Lv2 format you should try as well... Lastly, native vst for Linux do exist and work flawlessly.
Edit: as a general rule, audio in Linux is fairly different than on windows/macos, because it allows more flexible workflows, with the use of multiple softwares in sync to get the best of their abilities. For instance I make professional audio mainly with Ardour but I also use rosegarden, guitarix, luppp, non-daw, open stage control or pure data for some specific functions.
Thanks for the info. I checked out ardour and it seems like a good product. Looks like I'll have to branch out more and see what my options for vsts are.
IIRC it can use audio files as instruments though I never used that feature so idk how limited it is , I believe other DAWs can import audio more directly
It can but looping the audio file will make a 'click' noise. And there is no audio region handling so it's hard to know where the audio file ends visually on the main timeline.