In general I am finding DarkTable now rather slow when browsing through a larger number of photos. Strangely the timeline is also squeezed in the left hand corner. (yet?) I have photos from the last 10 years but the timeline at the bottom is just showing 2022, even when selecting a sub-folder (collection) containing exclusively photos from 2015 (and the metadata is correct). (A basic version is there in the darkroom view, I know) Well, may be I can live with the lighttable time-line. In the Lighttable view I am missing the nice band im thumbnails which Lightroom had been providing for the complete collection at the bottom of the screen (very fast, smooth, flawless). Most importantly I have difficulties with browsing through my photos. The Darktable and Lightroom interfaces are almost identical, so you should not have problems switching between the two software. Darktable is divided into 5 modules: Lighttable, Darkroom, Map, Slideshow, and Tethering.

There are certainly various things which don't work well yet. The interface of Darktable is quite simple the software can be handled easily even by a beginner editor. All photos are on a fast external Sandisk SSD Extreme Portable (USB C). Today I have generated metadata/sidecar files in Lightroom and imported all 24000 photos into Darkroom. I am just new to DarkTable, coming from Lightroom.

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