my advice would be to look for that and not a raw image processing tool
that incidentally happens to also handle cataloguing (inevitably in a
half-baked way).
Eh. No? Lightroom is a pretty darn good DAM. Maybe digiKam is at least as good, but I wouldn't know as it crashed the first time I launched it. I want to use my tools, not debug them. DT's asset management is, to put it charitably, an after thought.
About the worst thing I can say about Lightroom is that it didn't reliably work with my iPhone. Otherwise it did everything I needed in terms of tagging, presets, and organizing the pictures on the file system.
Meanwhile darktable creates freaking sidecars for every picture while it relies on an SQLite database for tracking history just like Lightroom does.
I have never seen Lightroom (or C1, for that matter) as compelling at all ever since
I started using RawTherapee.
Conversely Darktable is the best advert I've seen for Lighgtroom.
Maybe Lightroom is okay for cataloguing, I cannot say because I have not used it this way extensively, but it is not up to par in terms of raw processing control in my view.
About the worst thing I can say about Lightroom is that it didn't reliably work with my iPhone. Otherwise it did everything I needed in terms of tagging, presets, and organizing the pictures on the file system.
Meanwhile darktable creates freaking sidecars for every picture while it relies on an SQLite database for tracking history just like Lightroom does.
Conversely Darktable is the best advert I've seen for Lighgtroom.