I headed over to my daughter’s computer, which is running Elementary OS Hera (based on Ubuntu 18) .
Two things I noticed:
- the OS was far more snappy than what I was seeing to my Ubuntu Budgie '20 release. That computer has a quad core Intel, 2.6ghz 8gb ram My computer is an old mac pro 2009 with 8 cores, 2ghz 12gb ram. I would at least expect similar performance, but it elementary was noticeably faster, like a 386 to Pentium jump in performance.
- I loaded some test images into Photos (variant of Shotwell) and found it to be a lot more usable than Shotwell. When looking at ‘stacked’ raw and jpeg pairs, the raw image is featured and it displays the jpeg rendering, which I guess is the one built in to the image. The speed of showing the image was almost instant. It also appeared to be more robust and wasn’t crashing on import, and I was able to browse images while I was doing that. Shotwell is terribly instable.
So I threw in the towel and given I’m still just sandboxing linux on an old hard drive I just went ahead and installed Elementary OS 5 on my computer.
So far quite impressed with Elementary Photos. It is quite good, but lacks collections and there’s no way of teasing apart the jpeg and raw file. Otherwise quite good.
My quest for a good open source DAM continues, but Elementary Photos is closer.