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Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by zenoprax on Saturday January 03, 2026 @09:08PM (#46484068)
I feel that pain. I was using Lightroom since 2009 or so and I it took me many hours over many Saturdays to extricate myself from its grasp. That being said, my efforts to abandon it was the only thing that exposed a lot of problems (metadata, duplicates, etc.) so... it worked out in the end.
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Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by dotancohen on Sunday January 04, 2026 @04:53AM (#46486518)
Which lightroom replacement are you using on Linux?
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Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by zenoprax on Sunday January 04, 2026 @04:59PM (#46492729)
I was hoping you wouldn't ask :P

I don't have a replacement at all but this coincided with a reduced desire to tinker with and touch up my photos in general. I'm currently working on a modular Unix-y/CLI-focused way to safely ingest photos (archive originals with PAR2; then move from source and rename), reject/rate as needed, ensure timestamps are correct (UTC for DSLRs), geotag with whatever GPX I have, and then eventually some sort of LLM-based tagging. Exif will do a lot of heavy lifting here.

All I really need now is a way to rate my photos and I'll probably use Digikam for that. Raw processing doesn't have a CLI solution that I like so I'll probably have to use RawTherapee or something as well.

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