I've actually really taken to darktable the last few weeks. Manually installed 5. something, one of the latest versions anyway, as Mint comes with 3. something from the Software manager. Had a couple of little freezes early on, but they've sorted themselves out now, and the whole shebang is cruising along pretty damn smoothly now.
Haven't booted into windows for ages now.
It's mostly just finding modules that work for you. I really like filmic, tone equaliser, colour balance rgb (I think) colour zones, colour correction (easiest way to correct odd WB or colour shifts I've found) contrast equaliser, little bit of sharpening and lens deblur. Used in about that order. Quite quick and easy to get pleasing (to my eye) results. Came across Rapid photo downloader, that's the best, quickest little program I've found to organise, rename and sort images on import.
Also found another little program that makes it easy to automatically mount folders/directories on my NAS, still not really found any major stumbling blocks that I "need" Windows for.
I think Microsoft may have shot themselves in the foot a bit here with ending support for Windows 10, there's lots and lots of people now actively looking for alternatives, and tonnes of YouTube videos springing up on how to switch OS's. I'm having lots of fun tinkering anyway.
Played around with the SD card association Linux control line SD card formatting version the other day, a little bit of a learning curve as the instructions aren't totally precise on how or where to run the program from, but figured it out without too much difficulty, formatted a couple of cards using the quick, and deep formatting options, gave them a spin in the camera, all good.
