#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.
@hehemrin @wimi I could tell, and I suspected you were after DAM features. That is the fun part. I think they all are great for different reasons. It’s about finding the one that speaks to you and matches one’s need.
But, if you happen onto Andy’s YouTube channel, you’ll find that yes he has some great content about darktable, but he also talks about other software too. He’s quite detailed, and entertaining.