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Originally Posted by HarryT
Thank you - looks interesting. Lightroom really is "the" program in this field, though, so it would make sense for me to stick with it.
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I am not persuading you to dump your legally purchased expensive software, together with an extensive know-how. This might be interesting for people that are beginning with photography, or if you are helping somebody to install computer.
By the way ... can Lightroom - current version - be purchased as a stand-alone license that you install on a PC from a media and keep until computer dies? I know that recently there is this worrying trend that you have to pay every month for things like Creative Suite. This might be interesting for big corporation, but not for enthusiast. You stop paying and you can't open your own content anymore.
Over the years Linux (and FreeBSD) have gained LOTS of track. I used to keep a Windows boot partition (and later virtual machine) for those rare occasions when I needed to use AutoCAD at home or model something. Nowadays there is DraftSight that has 99% feature of full AutoCAD, and zero price, plus it runs on Linux. There is FreeCad - an open-source modeler similar to Catia, that is finally usable, .... . Every time I have a closer look there is another alternative for critical Windows-only program.