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Hi and thanks for the interesting comment. I suppose this discussion should go elsewhere, but just for clarity and posterity 
I have no problems with DAM on Linux, but of course YMMV and I can imagine circumstances where my methods may not work for others.
Geeqie can search and sort any mounted location using any of a long list of parameters, it also writes to IPTC, EXIF and XMP.
darktable creates an SQLite db, reads and writes metadata, has an extensive search function and is a very capable raw processor and image editor. Also has 16 and 32-bit floating point processing.
GIMP has had 16-bit color since 2012 and there's a plugin for CMYK although in my experience a couple years ago it's a bit of a hack. It does work well though. Color management works well too and I get consistent display from all on 100% RGB monitor.
I have a huge archive as well, but my current working drive has @ 500GB of images. I usually search directories and not the entire drive, but a few times I've searched it with Geeqie and had no issues.
My current DAM methods were developed over 10 years of working about 90% mobile worldwide, including 5 Arctic expeditions. As a long-time Linux user that meant Thinkpads and Toughbooks, rugged external drives and lots of memory cards and archival DVDs. I have a pretty simple DAM process that I'm comfortable with and now I'm getting older and ornery enough to resist changing it too much 
I'm sure if I had spent that time based out of a home/office/studio my methods and tools used would have developed differently.
My original point was that for most users there are a number of viable free options available for PP no matter which OS is used.
cheers
p.s. I'm currently using Arch Linux on a 6 year old Dell small desktop I paid $300 for. It has a new SSD, 16GB RAM and Intel Pro graphics. It's the fastest PP machine ever for me, including 2018 MacBook Pro and all my old Thinkpads.
James Markus wrote:
Steven, though i use Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems - I just consider them tools to run the software I want. I think Linux has work to do on DAM, but the closest consumer one to Lightroom (creating SQLite databases plus image editing) is Corel's Aftershot Pro v3. None of which approach SCC software's Media Grid from the late 1990's (now known as SCC MediaServer Digital Asset Management Systems), or Extensis Portfolio. I really like Gimp even though it has always lacked CMYK, and 16 bit image color, Darktable is pretty good, but hardly a lightroom replacement. There are things I admire about Linux - like the efficiency of gThumb (Wish Windows and Mac had such fast image browsers - ACDSee was close for Windows) DAM has become a very big issue for me, because the number of photos I shot professionally exceeds most consumer grade software's ability to cope. Commercial software would work, but I am retired and it is too expensive. I had hopes for Luminar, but they threw in the towel on DAM after version 4. The standards for image headers containing IPTC, and EXIF plus other data sets go back to the 1980s, and must be used in a DAM software. That software must also work across a network. Lightroom can barely cope with my whittled down portfolio, but I will next read up on these open source DAM solutions - Pimcore, EnterMedia, Phraseanet, Islandora, & Razuna - as they seem to be up to the the task.
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