Everytime I've tried to run this it ends up crashing and being utterly unusable on Linux. I've been trying for about 15 years on different hardware. Nowadays I just use a webgl based visualizer.
Some builds are more stable than others. I think I’ve found the SDL build to be the best. The ALSA one was fine bar a few specific plugins that needed disabling but the SDL build on ArchLinux is rock solid.