>>2924100It's very do-able.
If you are on the "zomg pro editor/tograph0rz" mindwagon then you'll never make it.
If you don't enjoy finding out how things work, writing your own scripts and occasionally not having some bell or whistle (while simultaneously having a whole bunch of other less obvious bells and whistles), then you'll never make it.
Windows is a mindset, just like mac, so is linux.
After using linux for everything since about (iirc) 2009 I find windows incredibly tedious and insulting to use. But I can. Just not on my system. Apple is linux at it's outer core, so it's sometimes an interesting cousin. eg: a few days ago i used the mac blurb installer to run their java based software. It was easy, and doesn't totally suck.
Geeqie for previewing
Gimp if you ever really need to photomanipulate something.
Darktable or Rawtherapee or Ufraw for general editing. I usually only tweak exposure, crop and WB in several hundred images at a sitting, so I like DT, and avoid RT because it makes everything pastelly looking by default. But RT is still useful and less gumby by design.
Imagemagick is usually default installed, and the key to all the right click context menus you want for specific common operations.
There's other "management" type software, but I prefer to avoid that shit and keep it simple and not tied to any one software.
Filemanagement by folder structure.
Backup by rsync to usually-off USB bank of 3Tb drives. I also rsync all my devices this way via SSH. On demand, but could easily crontab it.
Kubuntu for OS interface customisability and windows familiarity. Ubuntu for slightly more integral color management but gumby UI
Kubuntu can run almost anything written for Ubuntu, and googling either is often the right answer. The online documentation is colossal now, so answers are almost always easy. Also ArchWiki is an incredible resource for anyhting debian.
Debian based ftw. This ftw therefore flows on into MacOS and Android to some degree,
