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As a Lightroom user, how do you think Darktable compares to it for amateur and semi-professional use cases? http://www.darktable.org/

I've tried and liked it, but it seems that it isn't really meant to replicate Lightroom's cataloguing functionality. I tried importing the 20 or 25K photos I have, which Lightroom cruises through (I've met people with hundreds of thousands of photos in their catalogues) and Darktable gacks. That's on a relatively recent 5K iMac too, so I don't think hardware limitations are the problem.

Right now Darktable seems to be more of an editing tool and less of a cataloguing tool.

MS Office 2013 runs fine on Wine! At least, I can confirm that the equation editing and change tracking stuff was worth the effort to set up Wine. If you have custom plugins 'n stuff, maybe it won't work well.

Of course, Lightroom and MS Office are available on Windows, and may include more programs ;-)

The discussion here is about Linux not Windows.

None the less, my comment is true, and as a matter of fact, most PCs run Windows....