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0 pointsbigbugbag6y ago0 comments

To me this is a big failure where you advertise a larger competitor for free while not helping the clueless visitor trying to understand what your software does.

I came to darktable website to learn what darktable does not that there is another piece software that I do not know which does a somewhat similar thing but in a different manner.

not only this is not helping the clueless visitor, but it is advertising a major competitor and shows your software as being inferior to this commercial competitor.

IMHO not mentioning lightroom is a smart move, I discovered darktable without having any knowledge of lightroom for the simple reason that adode products do not exist on Linux. Also I should mention that I use darktable as an alternative to gimp which I chose as an alternative to photoshop 5 when I made the switch to linux.

This to point out that you should not presume of how people use software either, expecially with software that can cover some many different uses as photoshop.

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StavrosK6y ago· 1 in thread

I don't really agree with your point. Anyone who does photography even in passing will probably have heard of Lightroom, and the mere word tells them exactly what to expect. I'd take "like Lightroom, but FOSS and on Linux" over two paragraphs any day.

ygra6y ago

Both options also don't contradict each other. Two sentences that tell unaware people what to expect and another sentence to compare against what everyone who already uses such software already knows by name.

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