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RE: 5 Examples Showing Why You Should Take Photos in RAW Format
When I started shooting raw I was looking for a good editing program and tried several different ones including RawTherapee and Darktable. The decission was easy. I do not use Darktable for ingestion and management, that is not its stong side. For that I use Digikam which is the best free software I have found for managing, importing and renaming photos.
I use Digikam to manage my collection but didn't like its RAW processing.
It appears that we use the same basic workflow! I ingest, name and manage all photos with Digicam and do all raw editing in Darktable. I used to have a linux machine for all this but now I travel full time and needed something small and portable. I ended up with a surface pro running win10. I run Darktable inside a virtual machine on the surface pro, not ideal but it works and is the only way to get Darktable on a windows computer.
I have Linux on my desktop and all of my laptops. I wonder if it would be possible to install Linux to the Surface.
I'd be lost without Digikam.
Digikam has a windows version that works just fine in my opinion. The issue is Darktable that only works on Linux and Mac. I'd love to see a windows version of Darktable but there is no one willing to maintain the code for the windows branch.
I could install linux on the surface pro but also need other software that is only available for windows and does not run under Wine in linux, so I have to have a windows computer and do not really want to carry two with me so that leaves me with running Darktable under a virtual machine and it works well enough on my surface pro (i7 version).
Yes, it is a question of will and want when maintaining a Windows version. For a long time, the developers my favourite Linux video editor, Kdenlive, said Windows was too broken to port it. But, eventually somebody turned up and now there is a Windows version.
Regarding OSs, it's all about what ever gets the job done.
But you could virtualise Windows on Linux and run your Windows software that way. ;-)
I agree 100% - what ever gets the job done.
I could run Linux and a virtual machine with windows (and I have in the past) but doing that legally would be more expensive than the other way around.
Ha ha, guess what, your wish is now granted! DarkTable is now available for Windows! =)
https://www.darktable.org/2017/08/darktable-for-windows/