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Workflow changed with darktable 3 and to get the most out of it I recommend reading this article: https://pixls.us/articles/darktable-3-rgb-or-lab-which-modules-help/ Many modules - that still work - are now deprecated in favour of RGB workflow new modules. The article above suggests proper alternatives for each of them.

TLDR; lies. Kindly substantiate your claims. DT has a clone tool. It's part of the retouch tool.[1] Which is very powerful and allows way more than just cloning. It is also non-destructive, like anything in DT. DT has camera profiles, new cameras get added regularly. You can also create them yourself if you have access to a color checker using a built-in tool.[2] DT has tons of lens correction profiles. Basically anything you find in lensfun. If your lens is missing, lensfun has a service where you send images and they send you the calibration data back and add it to to their database.[3] I shoot (often exotic) manual glass most of the time. If someone tells me DT is lacking in this regard it's a good indicator for me they have no clue what they are talking about or never used the app seriously. UI: it could see improvement in terms of parameter exposure (no novice/simple mode) and ranges (some sliders go from 0..1, others from 0..100%) but otherwise? What in the UI is prehistoric? The catalog part of DT is also great. i.e. when your catalog is on a slow network or cloud drive DT can automatically cache RAWs locally and send back the XMPs with the edits only. Caveat: I regularly get paid for photography work (it's not fulltime but give I worked professionally in blockbuster VFX for two decades I think I qualify). I do all my processing in DT. If I have to do compositing work beyond that I export to Fusion. [1]…

There's some nice GIMP tutorials here with good showcasing. https://pixls.us/articles I believe written by GIMP contributors.. including Pat David who did a ton of older and a bit less polished ones here: https://patdavid.net/getting-around-in-gimp/ (for example this good one from 2012 https://patdavid.net/2012/08/getting-around-in-gimp-heal-selection/ )

If you have time and wish you can add them yourself: https://pixls.us/articles/create-lens-calibration-data-for-lensfun/

Obligatory: https://pixls.us/articles/darktable-3-rgb-or-lab-which-modules-help/

Here's a decent list centered around photography: https://pixls.us/software/

https://www.discogs.com/ https://pixls.us/ https://www.ifixit.com/ https://forum.f-droid.org/ https://indiewebify.me/

Take your pick: https://pixls.us/software/ (disclaimer: I write Filmulator)