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by lionkor 3 days ago
Have you looked at the documentation? In Darktable you can click the questionmark, then click on any feature, and very extensive, well written documentation walks you through how, when and when not to use each module and feature.
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Intuitive UX teaches you without asking you to read the documentation.

That said I don’t think the UX of LR and Photoshop is particularly good, especially in recent years. People just expect their skills to transfer over, but I don’t think FOSS should be doomed to clone the UX of proprietary software it seeks to replace.

The ansel fork seeks to remedy a lot of the bad design and workflow choices.

https://youtu.be/1R7gdfJVH9Q?si=a4WgcPt8q-aNSS2o

“Intuitive” implies “don’t need to read documentation”. That’s the entire point of my comment. There’s intuitive software and unintuitive software. This is unintuitive software. It’s not bad software, just unintuitive. I place value on intuitive software.