Re: [darktable-user] Best distro for DT?

[Christian Drechsler]

Hi, 

well, I wouldn't say that Arch is easy to install, there's lots to read. But 
the docs (Wiki) are great, and using Arch, you tend to learn a lot more about 
Linux than with other distros, where you just look at something that doesn't 
work helplessly and don't know what to do. 

Yes, I'd wholeheartedly agree there's no better distro out there for desktop 
use, and it always quickly has the latest DT updates, but I'd also add that 
it's not easy for Linux beginners. 

OTOH, when I started using Linux in the mid-nineties, there was no distro that 
was easier than Arch is today, and I managed, too. 

So, if you expect Windows/Mac-like point-and-click-and-(hopefully)-works, don't 
use Arch. If you don't, definitely give it a try. 

Best regards, 

Christian 


Von: "Gaylord DOIRAT"  
An: "Sakke K" , darktable-user@lists.darktable.org 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. August 2016 22:34:38 
Betreff: RE : [darktable-user] Best distro for DT? 

Hi, 
I choose arch linux for my desktop use. This distribution is quite easy to 
install, is a rolling release and have last update of software very quickly. 
Gaylord 



Gaylord DOIRAT 


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De : Sakke K  
Date : 14/08/2016 10:32 (GMT+01:00) 
À : darktable-user@lists.darktable.org 
Objet : [darktable-user] Best distro for DT? 

I have new SSD-disk. First i install Windows 10. 
I've been using Gentoo , but it is a difficult and slow to install. 
I'm thinking to try something else . Can I install Grub on the 
hard disk / dev / sdb and system / dev / sda ( solid state disk)? 


 
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Re: [darktable-user] A better starting-point for Nikon RAW-files

[Christian Drechsler]

I tried it now, too, but I must say that (at least for my D610) I had expected 
a bit more. 

I let Nikon's software work on more than 500 files and got 60 differing 
profiles. Most of them looked more or less the same, three were not usable in 
Darktable, and one comes out completely green—not just a little greenish, but 
almost looking like a b/w image looked at through a green filter. I wonder 
which image this profile was for. :-) 

I'll keep one of the profiles as a starting point if I have images with 
difficult colors, but in general, for me and my camera, using one of the 
Nikon-like, Nikon-like alternative, or neutral base curves seems to be a better 
starting point. 

For the images I looked at (mostly indoor people photography), the profiles had 
much too few saturation and contrast (and decreasing the linear value to 
something above 0 alone didn't yield acceptable results, too), so using them 
would mean I'd have to fiddle with those settings for every image. I'm much 
quicker with the base curves, choosing one of the three that fits the image, 
then some exposure correction, and that's it for the color settings of most 
images (at least for those that don't need to be perfect). 

But I guess it's different for different camera models, and probably for 
different lighting situations, too. 

Best regards, 

Christian 


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