Ardour's UI is complicated compared to, for example, Ableton Live. For example, I have added a MIDI track and it is unclear how to add notes to it. Right clicking on a track doesn't give an option to do that.

Also on Linux it supports only rarely used plugin formats (LV2, Linux VST), for which there are little plugins.

> I have added a MIDI track and it is unclear how to add notes to it. Right clicking on a track doesn't give an option to do that.

https://manual.ardour.org/working-with-midi/create-midi-regi...

https://manual.ardour.org/working-with-midi/add-new-notes/

> Also on Linux it supports only rarely used plugin formats (LV2, Linux VST)

https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge