Why hackers moved from Adobe Lightroom to RawTherapee

1 hacker described this switch in public comments. Their words, with links to the originals.

Adobe Lightroom 0 hackers criticize it
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RawTherapee 1 hacker recommends it

What hackers said about the move

“I moved from Windows and Adobe LightRoom to Fedora Linux with KDE Plasma, using DigiKam for downloading and organizing photos, and RawTherapee for RAW editing.”
eeiaeaa, 2026-04-15original comment ↗

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Adobe Lightroom vs RawTherapee

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Moved away from it11
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