Unfortunately, for photography, Darktable really doesn't get close to Lightroom. Most of the tools are more clunky, the performance is worse (and Lightroom is a

Unfortunately, for photography, Darktable really doesn't get close to Lightroom. Most of the tools are more clunky, the performance is worse (and Lightroom is already painfully slow) and most critically, the quality of the edits is significantly worse. Taking the same significantly under-exposed photo into both and boosting the exposure to roughly the same brightness produces results that are so wildly different in noise level and artefacts that you wouldn't believe they had the same input.