I like Ardour. It’s got everything you need. It’s what I’ve been using for the past couple years now. It even supports VST2/VST3 plugins through WINE

I also recommend using yabridge to set up Windows plugins to work on Linux, but be warned there is risk of compatibility issues with plugins on Linux when buying new ones!

EDIT - Resources:

• Ardour website - https://ardour.org/
  • Recommend installing from your package manager tho
• Yabridge tool - https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge
• A few plugins that work:
  • Drum kit plugin I like (free) - https://www.powerdrumkit.com/
  • Voxengo SPAN (Frequency Analyzer, also free) - https://www.voxengo.com/product/span/
  • Luciano Dato’s Noise-Repellant (free) - https://github.com/lucianodato/noise-repellent
  • Typically use the built in LPF/HPF, Graph Eq, Reverb, and Compressor plugins. They work great

Wait a little while and low key Audacity 4 might release a fully capable DAW as well now that it’s adding better clip support, plugin support, non-destructive editing for some effects like compression, reverb, etc. Of course, it will be mainly for if you do a lot of recording. For electronic, Ardour would probably be better even after Audacity 4 releases.

Tbf the devs said “compatibility layer”

What they’re referring to is that when you use tabs, you end up having some things at the end of lines have to be spaced over for alignment. Thus, you then have to turn on some way of seeing what stuff is tabs and what stuff is spaces and it turns into a big mess.

Hence why normal people indent with spaces instead of hard tabs