Bitwig.

It is cheaper, supports Linux and I start to think it is also the better DAW.

It's on flathub so you can try it on any distro and see if you like it.

Don't forget Renoise! It's proprietary, but Linux is a first-class build, it's inexpensive, and it's extraordinarily powerful and flexible for the right kind of mind/workflow.

Ironically they added linux support... for Live Push 3. It runs an headless x86 version of the desktop suite ported to linux.

There are even projects like this that let you restore the missing parts and use it elsewhere, but it's kinda buggy: https://github.com/velkajelka/linux-native-ableton

Bitwig is the closest (and in many ways superior)

There's also this project:

https://github.com/shibco/ableton-linux

They have a custom wine version that is built specifically to fix ableton issues on linux. I haven't tried this myself but I have heard good things about it on their discord.

Studio One has Linux support for non-open source and it's been around for longer than Bitwig.

For open source, Ardour but yeah...

Tracktion has always appealed to me.

Are Linux audio drivers good enough? At one point they were not reliable enough from a timing perspective but I have no idea if that's been fixed or not.

Reaper

Ardour