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      I use it over other tools, but I haven’t used the proprietary tools so I can’t provide a comparison.

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      I’ve tried to main it on a few occasions most recently on 4.1. It’s immensely powerful and I really think it surpasses Lightroom on ability to create pleasing tones. I have it installed on my home and laptop photo editing setup and I do use it on occasion.

      Uortunately, even as an Adobe hater, I still use Lightroom CC 99% of the time. Why? Because speed and cross-platform compatibility. CC is less powerful* but I can do all of my editing in 30 seconds per photo and I have roughly the same experience accross Mac, Linux, and Android.

      Darktable is slow to update, you have to be methodical, and there are so many ways to do the same thing. I know the devs are trying to make the best tool possible and I think they’ve built a gem. But I’m not invested enough to learn best practices for my photo editing software. I want a tool which gives me the happy path to the basics.

      *ai masking, ai noise reduction, and ai object deletion are insanely useful. I feel bad every time I use them… But I do. Darktable doesn’t have these

      • Thanks, that’s an interesting overview. I guess it might be worth checking it out, but like you say, I like the simplicity of Lightroom CC and 85% of the time you only want 5% of the tools, auto correct and basic histogram adjustments.