Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) for people who want to record, edit, mix and master audio and MIDI projects. When you need complete control over your tools, when the limitations of other designs get in the way, when you plan to spend hours or days working on a session, Ardour is there to make things work the way you want them to.
For plugins there is “yabridge”
Which I assume is a pain to make work on Linux?
I mean it works pretty flawlessly for me and I make music all the time. Some plugins don’t work the best but most of them are working well