Step back and think about what "using Windows VSTs" really means:
taking bits of software written with only one idea in mind—running
on the Windows platform—and then trying to use them on an entirely
- different platform. It is a bit of a miracle (largely thanks to the
+ different platform. It is a bit of a miracle (thanks largely to the
incredible work done by the Wine project) that it works at all. But is
this the basis of a stable, reliable DAW for a non-Windows platform?
Getting Ardour on Linux to pretend that its really a Windows