@ Musikbear, Can I win anything, if I recognize the track?

1990's time for the guru :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQle7hA ... DeRo0o0oo0
What LMMS version are you using ? Do you have wine installed ? If you installed it from a mint repository, tell the mint guys its not working. To test this you can use this version: https://lmms.io/download#linux This works on more distro then I can count. Download the file, change rights to executa...
I would advise to learn some music theory. The good news is that you don't have to remember most of it. LMMS knows a lot of scales, and chords, there is no reason to learn those scales from the top of your head. The scale and notes used, make a piece happy or sad. This person uses Fruity loops, but ...
.so Files are Linux files.

Vestige can't deal with those.

Carla however can, but you cant automate those yet.

With Carla I had Amsynth working in LMMS.
You are most likely doing something wrong.

Are you trying to record into the bbe editor ?
That could explain why it loops.

Does this help ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kamDECicDos&t=509s
The good old days in my book, when microsoft had not yet won, on the desktop. At work I have worked on UNIX, a cad program called cadam. Very expensive IBM hardware with a 19" monitor. Our keyboards were also special, they had some characters on certain keys, you used in the cad program. I thin...
We agree, You will learn a lot more from getting it to work on slackware. I am on openSUSE and one the reason I am not that good with Linux, is that on openSUSE I don't have too. I have even been considering to install Arch, just to get a better understanding of Linux. Fun fact, some Arch users jump...
No need to think about anything in general. Install wine, open up LMMS, open Vestige, and browse to the .dll file. The .dll can be in any folder on Linux. Downloads for example. I made a folder called VST, just in home, not in wine. I put all the vst I have in this folder. It becomes complicated if ...
From an LMMS point of view, yes.

But what do yo mean by an opensource project?
You need to more specific on what you want to do.