Of course Darktable is not only a photo sorter, but also does a lot of photo touch up ‘darkroom’ work. Debian system with KDE desktop. i5 with some bargain basement NVIDIA gpu (No, really it does not even have it’s own fan).
Which of the 3 do y’all like the best?
Edit - Update - More details:
I am dedicating a laptop to be my “portable darkroom”- My desktop machine is only an i5, this laptop is a nice Asus Vivobook with an i7 in it. I do have Rapid Photo Down Loader (which works well with my camera connected via USB C) Each photo drive or session goes in to a folder named by date 20250309 for today for example. These go inside a year folder. Inside the day folder I put the DCIM folder from the camera. I sort and grade on the computer. I have now tried Darkroom, and it seems to just pile every picture I have into one continuous unsorted stream of pictured with no grouping. I hope the other two do better in that regard.
I name and organize my files with rapid photo Downloader then manage them with digikam since I can use my own mariadb and use digikam on multiple computers but it’s pretty slow when accessing my photos when not on local network. Then I open the images with darktable from digikam for edits.
I’ve been going back and forth with maybe using darktable only but digikam has some nice features like renaming everything (I accidentally named my images during reorganizing after lightroom with import date instead of capture date) and they don’t seem to interfere with each other.