We Need An Adobe Lightroom True Competitor Locked

Bill Ferris wrote:

Adobe's the industry leader. Their market share is huge. If Lightroom Classic didn't run fast on a reasonably-spec'd computer, we'd hear about it from customers and reviewers. There are a lot of Lightroom Classic subscribers in the DPR forums. If you search in the PC forum, there's roughly a 5:1 ratio of discussions of Lightroom versus Capture One. It's a popular well-liked app, even in this forum where hardly a week goes by without at least one thread getting started by someone trolling the company and customers using its products.

Personally, I'm a longtime Adobe user. It's been more than 3-years since I upgraded to a Lenovo gaming laptop (under $1,500) and LR Classic has always run fast on it. I use it to process and edit both Nikon NEFs and Fuji RAFs. The notion that Lightroom can't be used to process and edit a great photo from a Fuji RAF is simply absurd. Don't take my word for it. Search the forums, flicker and other photo sharing platforms. You'll find a limitless source of good photographic work that's been processed in Lightroom.

There are plenty of folks who prefer Capture One or another image editing app to Lightroom. That's only normal. In a competitive market, no single product is the best option for all consumers. But the notion that LR Classic can't produce a quality NEF is just a tired old troll.

I import roughly 200 photos most weeks after wildlife and bird photo outings. I import more than a thousand after extended photo-centric travel. This morning, I imported 189 photos from a sunrise shoot to my catalog. I've added keywords, assigned GPS and location data in the Map module, marked the keepers, and processed and edited the top-10.

My laptop isn't some turbo-charged example of bodaciously spec'd kit. It's built around an Intel Core i7-9750H (2.60GHz, up to 4.50GHz) processor with 16GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics card. All apps are installed on a 500GB SSD. Lightroom and other Adobe products (Photoshop, Premiere Pro, etc.) run fast on it.

Given the specs you've shared, the only explanations that would explain LR Classic running slow on your computer are configuration issues or the complaints being hyperbolic. I'm taking you at your word that the app runs slow so, it must be how it's configured.

100% agree.  Very well said.