virtual-dsm VS darktable

According to the GitHub, you want to pass in the actual device, not the mounted path. You probably should/need to unmount it in unassigned devices. https://github.com/vdsm/virtual-dsm

If you’re feeling adventurous you can run the synology dsm os in a vm (qemu/kvm in my case). You use tinycore[0] as a boot loader to bootstrap the official Synology image[1]

It can be a bit of a pain to setup but once it’s up and running you can run all synology apps, including photos and even their nvr software, backup your home pcs to it, etc. If you pass through pci sata controllers you can bypass any disk virtualization layer and let synology manage raw disks exactly like a metal install in one of their nas machines would do. You could even swap the disks into an official nas later on if you wanted. The synology apps are highly polished and worth the setup imo.

There’s also a docker image that makes it all trivial, but it’s too many layers of abstraction for my tastes[2]

0. https://github.com/pocopico/tinycore-redpill

1. https://www.wundertech.net/how-to-install-xpenology-on-proxm...

2. https://github.com/kroese/virtual-dsm

If you want to participate in development or report some issues, the source code is available at https://github.com/kroese/virtual-dsm to see.

There's also darktable which is open source but rather .. involved. It's incredibly powerful but has a steep learning curve. https://www.darktable.org/

> the while loop of death (source: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/blob/darktable-4....)

shudder

Yeah, I too wouldn't want to volunteer to contribute to a project which is OK with this.

https://www.darktable.org/ or https://www.rawtherapee.com/ both free, open source and cross platform

Author has a blog post here, https://ansel.photos/en/news/darktable-dans-le-mur-au-ralent..., which exhibits some example code, for example, this: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/blob/darktable-4....

That's a far cry from what I'd find acceptable in any project.

Darktable - Price: Free Free and open-source photo editing software for Mac that features advanced editing tools and a user-friendly interface.

The base M2 is plenty cheap and pack a lot of punch in it, it flies through my RAW edits in darktable (https://www.darktable.org/) even with just 8GB of RAM. (Granted I don't have much things else running when using darktable).