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"If a decent enough quality version of lightroom that works with Linux comes on the market" It's called Darktable. https://www.darktable.org/ https://www.darkt

"If a decent enough quality version of lightroom that works with Linux comes on the market" It's called Darktable. https://www.darktable.org/ https://www.darktable.org/

wil421 5y ago
Last year I used Darktable and Lightroom side by side. They were both steaming piles of crap. Lots of bugs, crashes, and extremely high CPU usages. Darktable was slightly less buggy on MacOS but not much. Lightroom was easier to figure out but I’m not really using anything but basic features on both apps.
- derwiki 5y ago
  What OSX LR bugs have you hit? Apart from it being slow sometimes, I cant think of a bug I've hit.
- bayindirh 5y ago
  Similarly I used Darktable under OS X and didn't hit to any bugs. Exporting files require some patience since it maxes all cores at once, but nothing crashed or burned during the journey.
- FpUser 5y ago
  I do not remember Darktable ever crashing on me (well I am not professional and maybe not using all the features heavily). Also I use it less than a year, maybe older versions were less stable. I use it on Windows which can be a factor as well.
pizza234 5y ago
I've tried to use Darktable as replacement, and there's no comparison in terms of UX and functionality (within the specific use case that Lightroom is intended for). I'd like to use an open source product, but there is a huge amount of work put into Lightroom (I've been a long time user, and it's very easy to pick a new version and use new functionalities with trivial effort), aimed at making things easy to use for a non-expert, that is hard to match without big backing.
- bayindirh 5y ago
  I personally use Darktable to process my raw photos for some time. While I didn't use Lightroom for any considerable amount of time, I've found that Darktable can process relatively modern raw files (A7III in my case) easily and with pretty high quality. What are you missing especially? It answered all my needs so far. For some examples you can see https://www.flickr.com/photos/zerocoder/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/zerocoder/ . Some are not processed with Darktable, but all EXIF is intact, so you can check for yourself.
  - martyvis 5y ago
    Main thing I find Lightroom is superior compared to Darktable is being able apply adjustments consistently across groups of photos. You might have say 6 photos all taken of the same subject in the same conditions. You adjust one the way you want, and then literally copy and paste the categories of settings from one to all the other photos you want. Darktable doesn't seem to have that sort of workflow to get through hundreds of photos quickly.
    - bayindirh 5y ago
      This is perfectly doable in Darktable too. You can either save the adjustments you want as a style or just copy the history stack and paste to other images. Just did the same thing last week.
  - p_j_w 5y ago
    I have a Canon point and shoot that I use for underwater photos and Darktable really doesn't cope well with some of the RAW files. I believe it's related to the zoom. I also vastly prefer Lightroom's overall workflow. That may be something that could be fixed with adjustment, though.
    - bayindirh 5y ago
      If you prefer, you can share one of the problematic RAW files with me, so I can take a look at it. I'm just curious. As I've said, I didn't use LR for any significant amount of time. Its workflow may be smoother, but I don't prefer Adobe's software, though.
sneak 5y ago
Darktable is not sufficient quality to be considered seriously as a LR replacement, sadly.

"If a decent enough quality version of lightroom that works with Linux comes on the market" It's called Darktable. https://www.darktable.org/ https://www.darktable.org/

wil421 5y ago

Last year I used Darktable and Lightroom side by side. They were both steaming piles of crap. Lots of bugs, crashes, and extremely high CPU usages. Darktable was slightly less buggy on MacOS but not much. Lightroom was easier to figure out but I’m not really using anything but basic features on both apps.

derwiki 5y ago
What OSX LR bugs have you hit? Apart from it being slow sometimes, I cant think of a bug I've hit.
bayindirh 5y ago
Similarly I used Darktable under OS X and didn't hit to any bugs. Exporting files require some patience since it maxes all cores at once, but nothing crashed or burned during the journey.
FpUser 5y ago
I do not remember Darktable ever crashing on me (well I am not professional and maybe not using all the features heavily). Also I use it less than a year, maybe older versions were less stable. I use it on Windows which can be a factor as well.

pizza234 5y ago

I've tried to use Darktable as replacement, and there's no comparison in terms of UX and functionality (within the specific use case that Lightroom is intended for). I'd like to use an open source product, but there is a huge amount of work put into Lightroom (I've been a long time user, and it's very easy to pick a new version and use new functionalities with trivial effort), aimed at making things easy to use for a non-expert, that is hard to match without big backing.

bayindirh 5y ago
I personally use Darktable to process my raw photos for some time. While I didn't use Lightroom for any considerable amount of time, I've found that Darktable can process relatively modern raw files (A7III in my case) easily and with pretty high quality. What are you missing especially? It answered all my needs so far. For some examples you can see https://www.flickr.com/photos/zerocoder/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/zerocoder/ . Some are not processed with Darktable, but all EXIF is intact, so you can check for yourself.
- martyvis 5y ago
  Main thing I find Lightroom is superior compared to Darktable is being able apply adjustments consistently across groups of photos. You might have say 6 photos all taken of the same subject in the same conditions. You adjust one the way you want, and then literally copy and paste the categories of settings from one to all the other photos you want. Darktable doesn't seem to have that sort of workflow to get through hundreds of photos quickly.
  - bayindirh 5y ago
    This is perfectly doable in Darktable too. You can either save the adjustments you want as a style or just copy the history stack and paste to other images. Just did the same thing last week.
- p_j_w 5y ago
  I have a Canon point and shoot that I use for underwater photos and Darktable really doesn't cope well with some of the RAW files. I believe it's related to the zoom. I also vastly prefer Lightroom's overall workflow. That may be something that could be fixed with adjustment, though.
  - bayindirh 5y ago
    If you prefer, you can share one of the problematic RAW files with me, so I can take a look at it. I'm just curious. As I've said, I didn't use LR for any significant amount of time. Its workflow may be smoother, but I don't prefer Adobe's software, though.

sneak 5y ago

Darktable is not sufficient quality to be considered seriously as a LR replacement, sadly.