#Jellyfin is really fantastic. What a great gift for music fans (and movie fans too). Thanks to anyone here who has contributed to this project.
I can't endorse this enough. There were a few hurdles along the way, but well worth the investment of time.
@adventure_tense 🙂 I know about Jellyfin, and if I ever will have a mediaserver (instead of the media directly on the machine), I have my eyes on Jellyfin. By the way, I reckon and have many of the icons in your bar - and I am walking to Linux Mint from macOS.
@hehemrin I’m sure you’re having a fun journey too with Linux Mint. I should have migrated so much sooner, but that’s part of the journey too.
@adventure_tense Yes, it is part of the journey, both competence and mental. I have some difficulties to decide: I had decided for Mint Cinnamon. But lately I have almost decided I will instead go for LMDE, the Debian based Edition. I have migrated a few applications but wait for my own decision... On a test&trial laptop I have both, so I am somewhat familiar with both. One big preparation has been photos; I've been using Photoshop Elements as catalog for ages, now I have migrated to digiKam.
@hehemrin I “really” like LMDE6 as well. And nice that it doesn’t rely on Ubuntu, probably a good thing down the road. I run it on my Jellyfin Server. I’d like to run it on my main System76 computer, but I have some hardware support challenges.
If you haven’t already crossed paths with it, DisplayCAL is a very nice monitor calibration tool.
@adventure_tense :-) I actually have installed DisplayCAL. I have a Datacolor Spyder 5. I think I have only calibrated once, I must explore more how it works when I have migrated photos. Nice to hear that someone else use DisplayCAL!
@adventure_tense My prel list of photorelated sw I intend to install on Linux Mint/LMDE:
- digiKam
- RawTherapee
- GIMP
- DisplayCAL
- Entangle
- VueScan
- Rapid Photo Downloader; not certain if I will need/use it
- Corel AfterShot Pro 3; I have used it on Mac, tbd if I install it
- DarkTable; not now, but I keep an eye on it if in future in addition or replace eg RawTherapee
- Did I forget any
Do you have any other suggestion?
@hehemrin That’s a nice list. I may have a few more to try out. Hugin is a nice image stitcher (pano maker). They have a good web site to look through with examples. FOSS of course.
I’ll send a more diligently composed list when I get home.
Thanks for asking. Always exciting to share.
@adventure_tense @hehemrin I don’t want to miss your list, so I barge in here and thank you both for sharing. I used Lightroom for more 15 years and remember looking at Darktable a long time ago. It wasn’t good enough then, but now it is. Threw out Adobe and I am very happy with Darktable for my the way I use it.
@adventure_tense @wimi I was indeed considering DarkTable. But my starting point was a good DAM; catalog sw and one important feature I wanted was face tags. Not at least as I have started to digitize old family photos. DarkTable lack that feature, at least earlier. DigiKam can do "all tasks" but I think less good at raw conversion/edit. One reason for trying RawTherapee is that it is focused on that, and it was also easier as a beginner not to mess up sidecars, RT has its own pp3 (not xmp).
@hehemrin @wimi Photography wise, the only other app I dabble with on occasion is LuminanceHDR. I sure wish Photomatix Pro had a Linux version. That would be fun.
After that, things start to roll off into other interests (music, and map cartography) :-)
I checked out Entangle, which was on your list. That seems quite interesting to try out.
@adventure_tense @wimi Thanks Andrew, I add it to my sw list to explore.
