if you’re gonna pirate VST plugins, make sure you have all the essential windows dependencies installed (.NET Framework, Visual C++ Runtime off of the top of my head), but other than that it’s mostly fine. ironically in some cases pirating things are actually the better experience on linux rather than buying the thing legit and trying to install it using hacky workarounds cause the devs of the software did hacky bs. heck i even pirated a vst just to listen to its keygen music. worth it