Photo Editing on Linux

digiKam with some of my drone photos. My typical photo editing process is the MacOS Photos app for managing the library, then Photomator for editing, or Pixelmator Pro for more involved edits. If I’m on my phone, I’ll use Photomator for iOS. When I tested out NixOS I installed it onto my specifically-for-Linux-testing ThinkPad, which I’ve been using to try out some Linux photo editors. digiKam DigiKam seems to mostly be a photo library management system with basic editing capabilities. For managing a photo library it seems perfectly competent. You can tag or label photos, and navigating between photos is fast, which I find essential for identifying which version of a shot I want to keep and edit. It easily imported photos from an SD card just fine, copying them into the Pictures directory and adding them to a new album. I haven’t used the library interface heavily—I’m sure I would have more to say if I imported thousands of photos across many albums—but my initial complaints would be…

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