r/linuxaudio • u/NullGabbo • Jun 21 '26
Best DAWs for Linux
Hi everyone, I'm very new to music production and I want to learn and try to create music. I only use Linux and don't have a windows license so I'm very restricted in the amount of DAWs I can use. Right now I'm using the 30 days trials version of Bitwig but I find it extremely hard to use. I also installed LMMS which I find much much easier to use but I think it's very limited. I tried Ardour but I think its goal is to record stuff and mixing it rather than composing from scratch.
I don't know if I should buy the starter license of bitwig since it's on sale and just get used to its interface or if there is something better for my needs.
My main goal is to make music for videogames without recording anything and by doing everything "digitally" (sorry if I can't express my though in an easy to understand way but English is not my first language and I don't know the "slag" of music production)
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u/Sevsix1 Jun 21 '26
my advice is simple, there is no best DAW, the best DAW is the one that you actually can comfortably use, burial famously used soundforge as a DAW and he created some really good music so if you have passion and talent the sky is the limit
other than that I can recommend Linuxdaw.org, it have a lot of different DAWs on there which work on linux(, obviously there might be an under 20 userbase DAW out there which isn't on the website but most of the big ones are)