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I did some music production on windows, had a lot of vsts and everything worked pretty well. I then lost interrest for a while and switched to linux in the meantime. After starting again, I realize, how much easier it was on windows. While the bitwig plugins are great, there are so many things, like some effects plugins missing, that I really want to have. Of course carla and wine works quite ok, but it still isn't the same as native running plugins. My suggestion is to stick to windows if you do music production somewhat professionally, but if you have the time and motivation to work with a limited set of instruments, go for it. It can only change for the better in the future.
yabridge works really great for working with Windows plugins. I have quite a few of them working out just fine—at least with Bitwig, which is a native application.
That said, I've also seen some plugins that did not work. In particular the problems can be related to license management; they probably get confused of what kind of system it is running on..
In my view yabridge is easy to use, but on the other hand I have a decent amount of Linux experience, so perhaps the experience can vary.