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I've just hit an upgrade block with my processing software as it now requires Win11 and I hoped to stay with Win10 until it's no longer supported. Considering my options has led me to look at Rapid Raw which will run on win10 (and Mac or linux) .

I'll be interested to hear from anyone using Rapid Raw on any OS as it may be the answer you or I need.
 
I've just tried Rapid Raw. It's not bad, the interface is miles better than Darktable.
Only tried one image so far. So too early to judge.
 
I was solely a Linux user until a few years ago when I got back into photography and realised the options were not great for raw editing.

I'll have to try Rapid Raw.

In the end I dual boot Win 11 and use Photo lab which I do really really like. There are a couple of other software packackes that are Windows only too. But I much prefer using my EndeavourOS system, everything just works better with it.
 
gramps said:
macOS doesn't like Rapid Raw and marks it as 'corrupted, move to bin' - apparently it's not validated software.
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  • macOS: You'll need to remove the quarantine flag after installation, otherwise macOS may report the app as corrupted:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/RapidRAW.app
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Open source is very nice to have and libreoffice is one such outstanding example. Android is open source, hromium, firefox, thunderbird, wordpress, a lot of server tools.

Linux is a great OS, in many ways leaps and bounds ahead of windows, but unfortunately the likes of ADOBE are responsible for it not being viable due to Lightroom and Photoshop lock in. Even da vinci resolve have linux version. My work relies on using the best RAW converter and pixel editor so that is that.


vintageman said:
requires Win11 and I hoped to stay with Win10 until it's no longer supported.
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Can you name three genuine un-solvable blocks? I suspect not. Both are horrid OS, and the 10 is by the worse. Win11 user here, happy to not need win10, but eager to move back to osx or linux.
 
There are various apps that will let you run windows programmes on Linux. I don't know how effective they would be with the more sophisticated photo editing packages.
 
  • macOS: You'll need to remove the quarantine flag after installation, otherwise macOS may report the app as corrupted:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/RapidRAW.app
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Yes I saw that and I sometimes get a 'do you want to install...' warning, but a) It doesn't install and b) Even if it did, I'm not happy with making such a 'forced' adjustment.
 
Just downloaded and installed RapidRaw. Took me all of one minute in Debian. I've had a quick go at it, and it's pretty straight forward.
 
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