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by nurple 943 days ago
When I switched to Linux full time about a year ago, darktable was a godsend. I currently have it pointed at a NAS share with ~8k raw images and it works pretty flawlessly and I can barely tell that the images are offhost.

Personally, I really like a number of the features that this fork removed (like the timeline). The software does have a bit more of a learning curve than the commercial variants out there, but darktable is impressively capable and I personally jive more with its theory-based approach.

I _do_ agree that deprecating the display-referred mutations is a good thing, but the darktable documentation is already pretty adamant about scene-referred being the future; though there's no way people are going to go through their entire library and update their past tweaks from display to scene-referred, so I don't know that those modules can ever be removed.

I guess if I was going to be as petty as the author of this fork, I'd say that the Ansel logo looks awful.