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Bitwig is the best Linux DAW in my experience, although it isn't FOSS. Running third party VSTs is also much more of a pain if even possible. I'm also stuck with Logic... for now at least.

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It guess it depends a lot on personal preferences and expectations, but I'm very content with my Bitwig setup on Linux. There are obviously a lot less native third party VST plugins available on Linux, so if you already own lots of them and want to make a switch that could be a problem, but if you're just starting out, there's more than enough available:

https://www.kvraudio.com/plugins/linux/vst-plugins

yeh plugins ended up being a big thing for me, but in the end I decided I'd rather be free to use whatever OS I want to use rather than keep valhalla shimmer.

Can be a bit of a pain migrating from windows though if you have loads of previous projects, all expecting to find a specific vst in a specific place. Thats why I'm dual booting windows for now.

IIRC Bitwig was founded by ex-Ableton developers. I haven't tried it yet, but that's good pedigree.

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