VSTs are (mostly) system agnostic. It's likely that it was Linux software lacking VST support at the time of writing. Nowadays DAVs support running Windows VST

VSTs are (mostly) system agnostic. It's likely that it was Linux software lacking VST support at the time of writing. Nowadays DAVs support running Windows VSTs as part of their functionality (e.g. Ardour) or you can connect VSTs running under Wine hosts using Jack Audio Connection Kit to any DAV that doesn't