Using the tone eq and blending in the blue channel can be yet another tool you can use on the sky. Use a gradient/drawn masking option if further control is needed and with some opacity adjustment you can dial in some nice blue and also impact yellows… + values on the curve add blue and negative ones can essentially add/boost yellow so you can use it to tonally tweak skies. I often even try without the mask as it can transfer the effect to scattered light or bounce light cast and make the effect seem more normal say for example a reflection on the lake.
I finally have something to chime in with, and it was not easy by any means. dt 4.2.1
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Here is my version. By all means it was not a quick edit, I tried to remake Viktor’s photo
I used ART and GIMP in the end (resynthisizer and also gave it a bit of a green tint)
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Outstanding edit! What fantastic color judgment. That is something to learn from and to strive for!
Long time lurker, but i wanted to try this one as I’ve been trying to get close to the colors Adobe brings. This is the result of some module presets I made over the years (most of which I have set up to be the default), and a bit of manual tweaking, but all in all it maybe took me 2 minutes to get to this:
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Not just a few sliders, but a 5 min edit at least. Two instances of tone eq, a general and one for additional contrast in the sky, two instances of color balance rgb, a general and one for extra saturation in the yellow sunlight, an extra instance of exposure for lifting the shadows in the bottom of the image, and finally double up on local contrast: 1 x diff&sharpen, 1 local contrast.
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OP here. I’m playing with darktable a lot recently and I learned so much by watching the YT videos from @s7habo and practicing what I learned. And guess what: Tables have somewhat turned, I caught myself trying to replicate a dt edit in LR 
. And I’m not that proud of my original edit anymore. Anyways I still appreciate every single one of your edits whether they try to mimic mine or add another flavor. Thank you!
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Good to hear you’ve continued to evolve your skills, regardless of which software
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You may fall back to the dark side of the force again, darktable is the resistance… 
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Here’s my attempt at matching the Lr edit with darktable 4.5.
I would prefer less saturation for my own style.
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And here’s one with colours I prefer more:
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This was a fun little break from work!
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Here’s a try in ART 1.20.2 of reproducing the originally posted version. Not precisely the same but pretty close, IMO.
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question to OP: does the LR edit was just a simple adjustments or more complicated job?
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Hi Andy, simple or not is in the eye of the beholder, right? For me it was rather basic. But I answered the same question already in this thread: How to get a pleasing result in a quick way? (Comparison to Lightroom) - #73 by freepenguin84.
If you have more questions, feel free to ask!
Very late to the game.
Tried to minimize tools to use. I think the sky turns out OK but somehow lost the fog.
I think the adjustments are in the jpg file? I don’t even known when I saved the xmp file
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