Recently switched to Linux from Windows, and as you might've seen from the Renoise thread I'm now working with Renoise. It works beautifully, JACK is an amazing environment to work in, and I wouldn't have it any other way save for a single thing: VST support on Linux is not all that great.
Actually there are tons of great VST's for linux, not to mention the native DSSI and LADSPA plugins, there's no shortage of powerful synths or effects, it's just that there don't seem to be any aimed towards chipmusic. The site Woolyss has this awesome, extensive list of VST plugins but not one of them is also available on Linux, which is a shame. I could just as easily create my own sounds or sample out of Goattracker, but that's a much less intuitive solution.
Do you guys know of any chip-style VST's that are also native to linux (SID/NES emulation, stuff like Magical8BitPlug, etc)?
(A note about FST and DSSI-wrappers like dssi-vst, I've been wrestling with them for weeks and they really, really just DO NOT want to work, so there's no need to suggest those, I've already tried 
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