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Re:RawTherapee 5.3 – Photo software by dom0 on Monday October 02, 2017 @06:01AM (#15382746)
The last LR version I used was LR3 and performance was really not a problem. That was 2010, mind you. On an even then outdated dual-core AMD system with the images and the catalogue on some old hard disk.

So, am I correct to understand that Adobe managed to botch LR so badly that PCs with vastly superior processing and IO to what I used back then struggle on basic tasks?

Woah.

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Re:RawTherapee 5.3 – Photo software by kk_cz on Monday October 02, 2017 @07:49AM (#15383125)
One explanation can be that they managed to botch it the other can be that size of RAW images increased significantly in the meantime. I had no problem running relatively recent LR on i5 with 16gb ram.

(I had problem with their pricing though, so I switched to another (non-OSS) SW that is performing similarly for ~1/3 of the price)

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Re:RawTherapee 5.3 – Photo software by a012 on Monday October 02, 2017 @08:09AM (#15383213)
Talking about their licensing practice, I was about to buy a license for LR but their website prohibited me because I'm from their no- support/blacklisted country, so I can't buy. thanks for piracy and FOSS as well.
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Re:RawTherapee 5.3 – Photo software by StavrosK on Monday October 02, 2017 @06:45AM (#15382901)
Yeah, it's not terribly performant nowadays. I haven't gotten many crashes, but it feels pretty slow in general, even on a beefy machine.
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