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Most important part here, and what is mostly stopping me from jumping ship is photography. Darktable is probably fantastic software, however there is number of

Most important part here, and what is mostly stopping me from jumping ship is photography. Darktable is probably fantastic software, however there is number of great plugins for Lightroom that I would miss dearly.

contingencies 10y ago
You can virtualize or dual-boot if your photography workflow is anything like mine (mostly huge, batch-oriented). You can even use eg. VMWare unity mode to right-click to open in Lightroom in a virtualized windows or OSX instance. Performance won't be perfect but it's definitely good enough. Less so for video editing. Personally the bigger irritation has been printer drivers. I have a Canon Pixma Pro 1 which has no drivers for Linux, forcing me to maintain out of date Windows systems to print with, at which point one can spend a thousand years defibrillating half-baked theories on color management and virtualization, or crushingly accept a partial solution. Canon: GIVE US LINUX DRIVERS.
- CarVac 10y ago
  Printing is perfectly fine with Epson printers.
  - gonzo 10y ago
    And Brother, and HP.
  - pawadu 10y ago
    At work we have an old HP printer that only worked with linux out of the box. Windows 8 needed drivers to be downloaded and even than couldn't print duplex. OSX people had similar problems. Windows 10 worked really smoothly on the other hand. And now that it has a proper shell I am starting to like Windows again...
- lucaspiller 10y ago
  Wasn't unity mode been removed from Linux hosts? Or did they add it back? http://planetvm.net/blog/?p=2936 http://planetvm.net/blog/?p=2936
- desireco42 10y ago
  I don't care about printing much, I barely do this. I am thinking of dual booting. Don't really see other good way to go about it. Most likely, if I would switch to Linux, just use DarkTable and figure things out. One huge benefit of all of us switching to Linux, would be demand for good solutions for our problems, both as a potential providers of those solutions, as well as market.
trm42 10y ago
Used Linux before really started photography hobby. After a while of fumbling with additional WinXP desktop for Lightroom 1-3, decided to start using my work Macbook for photography as well and it has made my life a lot easier. One reason being that keeping laptops working with Linux is PITA. Lightroom is amazing piece of software for its purpose, but the vendor lock-in of 9 years of raws stored and edited() with Lightroom means I'll need some LR machine unless I want to create my photo library again. On the other hand I haven't seen other as well streamlined photography workflow + raw application. Of course I can export the good photos as JPEGs/Tiffs out of LR but then I'll miss the non-destructive history of edits and have to rework metadata etc...
- pawadu 10y ago
  Did you read the article? > I've been a super hardcore Lightroom user and lover, but eventually found Darktable and am perfectly happy with it now. Its ergonomics take a little while to get used to though. I know one pro photographer that use Darktable, not because its free but because it has some fancy algorithms that Lightroom lacks.
  - trm42 10y ago
    Yep, part of the reason I commented. Also the reason I listed some PITAs regarding LR. The author of the article didn't really describe his workflow regarding raws and jpegs so if he doesn't do really big edits, maybe he doesn't have the same problems as I do. I truly like the idea of Darktable, but converting existing photo library to Darktable is big and problematic job and the workflow + UX feels really painful. Sure there are other apps with great Algorithms for RAW editing like Capture One but that's another workflow/UX killer. Lightroom is actually quite awesome compromise between the quality, workflow and UX.

contingencies 10y ago

You can virtualize or dual-boot if your photography workflow is anything like mine (mostly huge, batch-oriented). You can even use eg. VMWare unity mode to right-click to open in Lightroom in a virtualized windows or OSX instance. Performance won't be perfect but it's definitely good enough. Less so for video editing. Personally the bigger irritation has been printer drivers. I have a Canon Pixma Pro 1 which has no drivers for Linux, forcing me to maintain out of date Windows systems to print with, at which point one can spend a thousand years defibrillating half-baked theories on color management and virtualization, or crushingly accept a partial solution. Canon: GIVE US LINUX DRIVERS.

CarVac 10y ago
Printing is perfectly fine with Epson printers.
- gonzo 10y ago
  And Brother, and HP.
- pawadu 10y ago
  At work we have an old HP printer that only worked with linux out of the box. Windows 8 needed drivers to be downloaded and even than couldn't print duplex. OSX people had similar problems. Windows 10 worked really smoothly on the other hand. And now that it has a proper shell I am starting to like Windows again...
lucaspiller 10y ago
Wasn't unity mode been removed from Linux hosts? Or did they add it back? http://planetvm.net/blog/?p=2936 http://planetvm.net/blog/?p=2936
desireco42 10y ago
I don't care about printing much, I barely do this. I am thinking of dual booting. Don't really see other good way to go about it. Most likely, if I would switch to Linux, just use DarkTable and figure things out. One huge benefit of all of us switching to Linux, would be demand for good solutions for our problems, both as a potential providers of those solutions, as well as market.

trm42 10y ago

Used Linux before really started photography hobby. After a while of fumbling with additional WinXP desktop for Lightroom 1-3, decided to start using my work Macbook for photography as well and it has made my life a lot easier. One reason being that keeping laptops working with Linux is PITA. Lightroom is amazing piece of software for its purpose, but the vendor lock-in of 9 years of raws stored and edited() with Lightroom means I'll need some LR machine unless I want to create my photo library again. On the other hand I haven't seen other as well streamlined photography workflow + raw application. Of course I can export the good photos as JPEGs/Tiffs out of LR but then I'll miss the non-destructive history of edits and have to rework metadata etc...

pawadu 10y ago
Did you read the article? > I've been a super hardcore Lightroom user and lover, but eventually found Darktable and am perfectly happy with it now. Its ergonomics take a little while to get used to though. I know one pro photographer that use Darktable, not because its free but because it has some fancy algorithms that Lightroom lacks.
- trm42 10y ago
  Yep, part of the reason I commented. Also the reason I listed some PITAs regarding LR. The author of the article didn't really describe his workflow regarding raws and jpegs so if he doesn't do really big edits, maybe he doesn't have the same problems as I do. I truly like the idea of Darktable, but converting existing photo library to Darktable is big and problematic job and the workflow + UX feels really painful. Sure there are other apps with great Algorithms for RAW editing like Capture One but that's another workflow/UX killer. Lightroom is actually quite awesome compromise between the quality, workflow and UX.