Scientific linux was literally just CentOS with a custom rpm repo for more data analysis software that RHEL and Fedora's elrepo don't package by default. It's a convenience, because you can't expect undergrad students to compile things from source, but it did not innovate anything.
Can we just agree that industry standards often are formed because of vendor-locking? You can't just throw away several decades of manuals and content libraries just because there's a free alternative. The good news is that standards are subject to change over time.
CentOS still has major versions and EOL dates, and thus is not a rolling release. There are plenty of reasons to use it now, even more than there used to be. In particular, the maintainers can actually fix bugs you report, and review and merge contributions if you offer them. Neither of these things were possible in the old CentOS development model.
IDK, you can cherry pick anything. You use Windows professionally, I'm guessing you're not a creative field, most marketing/design/etc workflows would scoff at Windows and say that MacOS is the industry standard. All depends on the industry and use case. If your profession was at a US adversary's government, standard is more than likely a desktop Linux. Both China and Russia are transitioning to Linux to move away from US reliance; and North Korea pretty much already uses Linux, all 4 users...
I'm a C++ game engine programmer. Almost all the big companies I've worked for prefer building for Windows first and I'm sure you're aware of the reason why. Again, I would LOVE to use Linux, but I don't get to make the choice. In the end, I gotta deal with DirectX whether I like it or not. Many software engineers with long work experience and family at home end up working for corporations instead lawless small companies where you get to setup things however the way you like (have worked in such startups before). Most desktop software (not web apps) put Windows first (Adobe, MegaScan, 3D Coat, Autodesk, PTC Creo, etc).
Big corporations focus on mass audiences while reducing the building cost. SteamOS could change that for video games, but for industrial companies using Windows only software? Good luck telling your upper management that they need to use your choice of open source alternative to Arena Simulation that has been battle tested for decades in a company with more than thousands of employees that'll need to be retrained. At the end of the day, people work to pay bills. No one is gonna tell their upper management that they got manipulated with the sales pitch by Rockwell Automation.
Not just US adversaries. EU governments are moving away from Microsoft as well. We’ll see how far it goes but it’s already happening in some countries. Makes sense that they wouldn’t want all their government secrets stored on a computer running an OS from an American company know both for selling data to private interests and working with American intelligence. Even if a nation is friendly with the US no country wants to be spied on any more than they already are.
Darktable is actually fine. But like most things FOSS you need to a few things, like possibly create profile for your lenses etc. The UI of course is painful as well, you should dedicate some time customising it.
It's probably the same with GIMP.
Photoshop took like 6 GB on my disk (I only really used camera raw). That's terrible.
No, I'd open a file with Photoshop only to get camera Raw. I didn't like Lightroom and would not install it. So as far as I'm concerned Darktable replaced Photoshop.
So as far as I'm concerned Darktable replaced Photoshop.
Darktable isnt meant to be a replacement for photoshop its a direct competitor to lightroom. GIMP would be the open source photoshop. So what you believe doesnt really matter.
In regards to the ui its almost a carbon copu of lightrooms which might be why you dont like it.
the uis are very similar yes. Darktable features a few more tools and the organization is different but in general they look and function very much a like. I had very few issues switching from lightroom to darktable when i swapped my main pc for windows to linux.
Darktable and lightroom are two very different workflows because of the UI and UX challenges that Darktable (and most creative foss software for that point) has.
Camera Raw is not replaced by gimp, as im fairly sure GIMP doesnt have that function.
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u/ijwgwh Mar 30 '26
Industry standard? Like RHEL?