@getimiskon >I prefer to avoid it.
But you don't actually end up avoiding it, even when a suitable free software replacement exists that is only slightly less convenient?

>audio applications have always been quite a bit of pain on Linux.
ALSA works just fine in my experience.

On systemd/Linux, you're in for some audio pain, sure.

>the sampler on LMMS lacks quite a few useful features.
Good thing it's free software, so you can add the features yourself, pay someone to implement them or submit a feature request.