Do you have pet isopods?
Valsa
I thought the thumbnail was butter for a second

It's poop. Slug most likely
Plugdata is a rabbit hole, but thankfully you only need to learn a few dozen of the most common objects to start making things. It took me a week of low effort learning before I could make patches without needing tutorials or outside help. The built-in documentation is all you need after that.
Does that plugin have a distinct sound you like? To be honest I've never moved beyond my DAW's stock eq and compressor. And god, iLok is a scourge.
Native Linux audio plugins are frustratingly uncommon. I'm gradually trying to replace my Windows plugins with Linux native ones but it's hard to do sometimes. My thing lately has been building my own replacements with plugdata.
Complaining about the neighbours maybe? They sure have a lot of them.
It's more boreal in distribution, so you might be a tad too far south. Usually it grows in bogs and heathlands. You can check iNaturalist for a map and to see if it's been reported near you:
Kalmia angustifolia
Happy music making (:
So I recently reinstalled Linux on my machine but hadn't bothered to reinstall Analog Lab, so I just did that now to confirm it still works. It was really easy.
From their website I got the installer, and ran Analog Lab V Setup.exe with Wine. I went through the setup wizard just like you would on Windows, and then manually moved the vst file from the Wine directories into my normal vst location (~/.vst). After this, I generated the .so file with yabridge. This is also a really simple process. If you are using yabridge for the first time, you need to tell it where your plugins are:
$ yabridgectl add path/to/vst
After that, generate the .so files:
$ yabridgectl sync
Once this is done, your DAW of choice should be able to find and open the plugin. For me, Analog Lab V opened without issue and prompted me for my account info. Here's Analog Lab V on my machine:

Edit: I forgot to mention my copy is legit and it activated no problem.
The word 'quietly' seems to be in every other headline lately, it really bugs me.
Government / company x quietly does y.