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If you're coming from the likes of Lightroom or Capture One you will have to learn a very different way of working, but in return you get a lot of control over the edit.

Atrocious in what way? But no, it hasn't changed in any significant ways since 2019.

Better is subjective, but the editing is much more powerful. However, it's also a completely different editing paradigm (largely on-rails vs. layers/nodes), so some acclimatisation is required.

As the one responsible for writing much of the FAQ, I can assure you that's not what is meant. The point is to hopefully make new users aware that they can't assume their Lightroom knowledge will help them, and thus encourage them to consult the manual or some tutorials. It's an unfortunate fact that many coming from Lightroom think they already know everything and don't have to learn anything new, but when they fail to make head or tails of darktable they conclude that the issue is that it's trash and not that they didn't bother educating themselves - and they will often loudly proclaim this on Reddit in a rather entitled manner.

But yes, the library features could do with some improvements.

OpenCL is deprecated, not unsupported, on MacOS and may be removed at some point, but it absolutely does still work for now. If you don't have OpenCL acceleration, it's a bug.

Look into the keto diet. Fat is definitely not the main issue, sugar and other simple carbs are.

It wasn't killed off. Support was removed from Chrome, for what appears to be rather spurious reasons, but practically everyone else are busy implementing it.

While certainly an impressive effort, it's not even close to competitive yet. As is pointed out in a comment on [1] and as can be seen from the rat piss yellow in the sky, the algorithms are very much on the naive/simple side of things.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=7QymsCRNRHE

ART (Another RawTherapee) has a more Lightroom-like approach to masking that you might like better.

A (very) relevant post from 3 months ago:

Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43502291

I'd be surprised if they have to go through the same review process as everyone else. And even if they do, the reviewers are likely to give them a pass because it's Google.

Power consumption is at a completely different level, though. The N100 gives you pretty good performance with very low power draw.

Pretty sure Asustor also allows installing any other Linux you want.

DNG is a TIFF file, just like most proprietary raw formats.

Each instance can set it's own size limits.

There are actually a number of more-or-less node/graph-based image editors:

# chaiNNer

Fully node-based image processing.

https://github.com/chaiNNer-org/chaiNNer

# vkdt

Node-based raw and video editor. Sort of the evolution of darktable, by the original developer.

https://jo.dreggn.org/vkdt/readme.html

# darktable

The graph is strictly linear (single input, single output), but you can change the order of the processing and insert new nodes as you want.

https://www.darktable.org

Pretty sure there are some others, but those are the three I can remember right now.