I am aware I could probably get those windows plugins working again with a bit of wine + yabridge fiddling but want to take this opportunity to move towards more linux native plugins/synths.
ok that wasn't so bad, there's an issue here with yabridge:
https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge/issues/409
I downloaded the fixed version and ran yabridgectl sync and it was all ok. YMMV
$ wine --version
wine-10.0 (Ubuntu 10.0~repack-11)
To be honest I have bought way too many plugins through the years, and I rarely bought just one plugin at the time, but always some kind of bundle on sale.
I turns out, that this is actually an advantage when you move to Linux, since Yabridge/Wine have a tendency to make some - but not all - plugins working. Because of my collection, if one comp./verb/channelstrip isn't working, I move on to the next, and in the end I have what I need.
Looks like I can use UADx plugins now. They have some GUI related crashes, like the Arturia plugins, but when they are dialed in, you don't need the GUIs anyway - so I'll live with that. This has been fixed in Wine 11, but those fixes has not yet come to Proton/Wine-cachyos, so I'll have to wait.
Solution to install: Get UA Connect on your Linux and a PC, install everything on the PC, move files to your wine-folder and activate the plugins in UA connect through wine.
