4 ms·

I use both Lightroom and Darktable regularly. While DT has a bit more bumpy UX, it makes up for that by being more flexible than LR and really fast on Linux wi

I use both Lightroom and Darktable regularly. While DT has a bit more bumpy UX, it makes up for that by being more flexible than LR and really fast on Linux with a good GPU with OpenCL support. And there is nothing that LR can do that DT can't. I.e. you don't need to shell out 6k for new box to make LR run fast. Just bite the bullet and learn another RAW editing app. If you have thousands (or ten thousands, in my case) worth of RAWs processed in LR, just keep editing them in LR if you still have to. I often hear this as a reason why people don't want to switch. I switched to DT in 2011. Everything before is LR. I use LR when I get images from friends who use LR and want me to do some advanced stuff for them or when I have to touch one of my pre-2011 RAWs. It is always slow on the same machine, compared to DT, but it's quite ok if you use it occasionally. :)

thomnottom 9y ago
Any reqs for a GPU? I have not gotten a handle on my photo archive/workflow since switching to Linux, but want to get familiar with DT.
saiya-jin 9y ago
The whole article is a bit strange - so much effort into research and putting it all together to have OC monster (which itself is really great read), and on the end simple realization that - Lightroom is unoptimized piece of shit of an app, it doesn't get fast no matter what hardware you run it on. For gaming-only purposes, this would not be optimal build for given money. - Maybe, just maybe the whole workflow of his should be addressed more, like selecting only few worthy photos for proper post-process (and thus slashing whole time spent in LR much much more) Since we talk about Windows, for example super simple Irfan View with RAW module (tiny amazing app, super fast to work with) can do this pre-screening faster than anything else. Plus at least some parts of LR are truly bad - their panoramas are super slow, and regularly don't stitch things properly where other software performs just fine (Autopano Giga 2, which is also easily 2-3x faster).
adamweld 9y ago
Lightroom is slow as fuck in my experience. Just bought a new laptop with a top of the line i7 CPU, SSD, 32GB RAM, 1050 GPU, etc. and it tears through video editing, solidworks CAD work, etc. But even still LR lags constantly working with a small collection of photos from my M4/3 camera. Like I can't scroll through a collection without it hanging. I assume this is caused by poor GPU utilization, but it's very frustrating whatever the cause.
cooper12 9y ago
Yeah it was really weird to read of all the in-depth research done and extra mile the author went to in order to get an optimal build for Lightroom, only for the benchmarks to have been slower than a Macbook Pro in some areas and in some areas shaving only 2 mins off of 15 mins. That's just ridiculous. I shoot with a D3100, whose 14MP is a third of the author's 42MP, but with Darktable, editing RAWs on a Mid-2012 Macbook Pro has been a breeze.

thomnottom 9y ago

Any reqs for a GPU? I have not gotten a handle on my photo archive/workflow since switching to Linux, but want to get familiar with DT.

saiya-jin 9y ago

The whole article is a bit strange - so much effort into research and putting it all together to have OC monster (which itself is really great read), and on the end simple realization that - Lightroom is unoptimized piece of shit of an app, it doesn't get fast no matter what hardware you run it on. For gaming-only purposes, this would not be optimal build for given money. - Maybe, just maybe the whole workflow of his should be addressed more, like selecting only few worthy photos for proper post-process (and thus slashing whole time spent in LR much much more) Since we talk about Windows, for example super simple Irfan View with RAW module (tiny amazing app, super fast to work with) can do this pre-screening faster than anything else. Plus at least some parts of LR are truly bad - their panoramas are super slow, and regularly don't stitch things properly where other software performs just fine (Autopano Giga 2, which is also easily 2-3x faster).

adamweld 9y ago

Lightroom is slow as fuck in my experience. Just bought a new laptop with a top of the line i7 CPU, SSD, 32GB RAM, 1050 GPU, etc. and it tears through video editing, solidworks CAD work, etc. But even still LR lags constantly working with a small collection of photos from my M4/3 camera. Like I can't scroll through a collection without it hanging. I assume this is caused by poor GPU utilization, but it's very frustrating whatever the cause.

cooper12 9y ago

Yeah it was really weird to read of all the in-depth research done and extra mile the author went to in order to get an optimal build for Lightroom, only for the benchmarks to have been slower than a Macbook Pro in some areas and in some areas shaving only 2 mins off of 15 mins. That's just ridiculous. I shoot with a D3100, whose 14MP is a third of the author's 42MP, but with Darktable, editing RAWs on a Mid-2012 Macbook Pro has been a breeze.