At best, I have toyed around with it and it’s mostly messing around with effects plugin on Soundtrap mostly for fun. Other than that, I don’t know how to exactly make a good beat.
Also does people still use LMMS as I mostly use Linux instead of Windows?
There are some great tutorials for beginners on youtube of how to make a beat.
As for software, your options will be more limited on Linux, but thankfully there’s some good ones available nowadays. Though one thing to note is that If you’re on a Debian based distro, you’ll need to make sure you download the pipewire-jack package and then add pw-jack to the start of your DAW’s executable to access the Pipewire-JACK backend, otherwise it’ll only work with the ALSA backend.
Reaper: A really solid and affordable DAW. It doesn’t have the most modern interface (mostly just noticeable in the settings menu), but it’s extremely versatile, stable, and has the biggest community of support out of any DAW out there, with tons of good youtube tutorials or written articles. The free trial is actually endless like WinRAR is, it’ll just nag you when you start it up for 5 seconds, but it’s the full version, and you can produce full songs in it. This is the DAW I would personally suggest trying.
Bitwig: This is a really visually polished DAW, and has first class linux support, but it can be a bit expensive, and the new 6.0 version is a little buggy, while the stable 5.x release lacks some of the really nice quality of life improvements in 6.0. It has a lot of features from Ableton Live, such as the ability to work with ‘clips’ of music that you can arrange freely. The company isn’t as chill IMO as Reaper, and they pulled some greedy stuff a while back that got the community angry at them, which I think they walked back, but I can’t trust them after that. It has different tiers ranging from $99, $200, or $400. The $99 version can’t effectively control hardware synths if you have any, since they restrict the use of Midi CC data. If you’re only using virtual synths, then the cheap version should work fine.
Renoise: This is a really powerful and polished DAW that uses the Tracker style of composing, much like was done on the Amiga or DOS back in the day. There’s a free trial, and if you end up liking that style of music making, it’s a pretty cheap DAW at $88.
Traction Waveform: This DAW recently added Linux support. I haven’t used it yet, but it’s completely free and quite polished looking. Most people report it being pretty nice, though community support will be more limited since not as many people use it.
Fender Studio Pro: Another DAW that recently added Linux support. It used to be called Studio One, but was traded around for a while, and now Fender owns it. It’s a bit more focused on guitars and comes with a lot of Guitar effects, but from what I can see is a fairly capable DAW that could be used for any type of music. It costs $199.
For the FLOSS DAWs, there’s:
Ardour: Usually available in your distro’s repo. It’s technically well made under the hood and very capable, but I personally found the UX to be… difficult to get used to, and there’s not many up-to-date tutorials for it, unfortunately. If you can jive with it, it’s a solid DAW.
Zrythm: A much more user-friendly DAW compared to Ardour, but not really usable at the moment. They’re totally re-writing it for a major 2.0 release, which is something to keep an eye on for the future, as it’s quite promising.
LMMS: A pretty decent FL studio clone, but unfortunately it still only supports VST2 instruments, which is highly limiting nowadays, so I’d probably skip it unless you’re okay with that limitation (they are working on VST3 support, but it’s taking a while).