VMs won’t do for long, because you won’t have proper acceleration as it’s required by gfx apps like Lightroom. Sure, they’ll work, but you’ll experience slowdowns. You can run accelerated VMs, but I find them buggy.
If you’re going to dual boot, you should install Linux on a separate DRIVE, not just a partition, and install the bootloader on that second drive. You force Linux to do that by disabling in the BIOS the Windows drive first, before installation. Then, you re-enable it again. Then you can choose what to boot at using F12 during boot time. If you put them on the same drive, Windows will eventually overwrite the bootloader.
GPU pass through with VFIO is literally how services like GeForce Now, PSN Streaming work. It’s not too buggy if your system is set up properly and it’s far better than dual boot.
Yes, it does not have ML denoise, but there are very good reasons why you don’t want to have that in your raw pipeline. Sure, after raw development is fine, but denoise in a raw pipeline needs to maximise the signal-to-noise ratio. Machine learning denoising would introduce hallucinations, which are not real signal, and that’s why it’s best kept out of raw files.
Well, yes, some specific camera support features are missing, such as Fujifilm look-up tables, it still is the best raw editor I have used in my entire life and I can highly recommend it.
Be prepared to commit some time to the transition though. I installed darktable and gave it a try a couple days ago. There’s enough similarity to make you think it’ll be an easy transition, but it sure wasn’t for me. It took me an hour to do something that would have taken 5 mins in Lightroom. I’m glad to have it, and it seems like a powerful tool, so I’m not complaining, just sayin… be prepared to commit some time to learning where everything is.
VMs won’t do for long, because you won’t have proper acceleration as it’s required by gfx apps like Lightroom. Sure, they’ll work, but you’ll experience slowdowns. You can run accelerated VMs, but I find them buggy.
If you’re going to dual boot, you should install Linux on a separate DRIVE, not just a partition, and install the bootloader on that second drive. You force Linux to do that by disabling in the BIOS the Windows drive first, before installation. Then, you re-enable it again. Then you can choose what to boot at using F12 during boot time. If you put them on the same drive, Windows will eventually overwrite the bootloader.
The ideal thing is to actually move to Darktable. https://mathiashueber.com/migrate-from-lightroom-to-open-source-alternative/
GPU pass through with VFIO is literally how services like GeForce Now, PSN Streaming work. It’s not too buggy if your system is set up properly and it’s far better than dual boot.
Darktable doesn’t have AI denoise, and also doesn’t have camera profiles for fuji RAF files, just off the top of my head.
Yes, it does not have ML denoise, but there are very good reasons why you don’t want to have that in your raw pipeline. Sure, after raw development is fine, but denoise in a raw pipeline needs to maximise the signal-to-noise ratio. Machine learning denoising would introduce hallucinations, which are not real signal, and that’s why it’s best kept out of raw files.
Well, yes, some specific camera support features are missing, such as Fujifilm look-up tables, it still is the best raw editor I have used in my entire life and I can highly recommend it.
Be prepared to commit some time to the transition though. I installed darktable and gave it a try a couple days ago. There’s enough similarity to make you think it’ll be an easy transition, but it sure wasn’t for me. It took me an hour to do something that would have taken 5 mins in Lightroom. I’m glad to have it, and it seems like a powerful tool, so I’m not complaining, just sayin… be prepared to commit some time to learning where everything is.
password protect your bios. that’s the only way i found for windows not to mess it up on my machine, seriously.
Single gpu passthrough vm works flawlessly if you can take the time to set it up