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The point is, the UI looks vaguely similar to Lightroom, and many people come to Darktable expecting a free clone of Lightroom. Scores of these people then hit the forums and complain about "missing features" and "incorrect behavior" and such. It's a real problem, and happens very regularly.

That's why they try to put it front and center that Darktable is not Lightroom, is not trying to be Lightroom, and should not be expected to work like Lightroom.

There are too many media outlets that peg darktable as "free lightroom" so people comein expecting that. Sure we do similar things, but we are the same like an F1 car and a Honda civic are similar.

It gets really old listening to people complain how it isn't FREE LIGHTROOM

darktable does very close to zero file management, or library management, they are purposefully staying away from this.

Also, they don't want to be seen as a clone as feature parity is not their goal.

Basically it just happen that the two pieces of software perform some of the same functions.