Recommend me a Lightroom alternative (lemmy.world)

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Hi y'all. I've recently started looking at getting back into running Linux again as a main OS. With Proton and Steam all my gaming works fine. And with so many web apps those are all cross-platform anyways.

However the one application which I have not yet found a good alternative for is Adobe Lightroom. I've found Lightroom to be simply the best experience for managing a large (100k+) catalog of photos. I've really tried to get into using Darktable but while it can do a lot, I've found the UX to be incredibly bad and painful to use.

Is there a photo workflow app which is relatively simple, efficient and easily usable that lets me manage my photo library, can do some basic editing (levels, crop, etc.) and runs on Linux? Thanks.

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[-] MangoPenguin 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

There isn't one that does catalog management too.

RawTherapee is OK for RAW editing, but that's all it does. It's a bit slow too at updating when you change things, it'll take like half a second after moving a slider instead of updating right away as you move it.

DigiKam is OK for cataloging, but it's very slow and you have to open photos in external editors, and then RAW edits you do don't show up in DigiKam unless you export to some other format first, it's a huge mess and hassle to use.

Darktable does both, but it's so insanely difficult to use that I gave up after seeing people suggesting really long tutorial videos to learn how to do basic stuff. The photo output from Darktable also never looks right compared to other programs I edit in. It also has the same slowness issue as RawTherapee.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 9 hours ago

Really? I'm a super-casual Darktable user - like, once or twice a year when I get around to actually doing the (for me) boring post-processing stuff, and I don't find DarkTable confusing or hard.

What sorts of things do you think it does poorly? Maybe I just don't do those things.

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