Last time I tried digikam it crashed on startup (macos). This was back in September. I'm sure it's not a hugely popular opinion in open source circles, but IMO neither digikam nor darktable are good enough to warrant the hassle of dealing with separate applications.
Lightroom is a bit of jack of all trades, but it's good enough as a DAM that I'm not wanting for a separate app.
I don't have stability issues with digikam while using it on fedora. It's well maintained and sees frequent releases so if I were you and had some spare time, I wouldn't shy away from opening issues and reaching out to developers.
And yeah, sure, if the "do it all" approach works for you, and the tool you desire already exists, I'm not there to turn you away from it! Since digikam can open any lot of images in a side application for edition, I'm not sure what kind of improvements a "kitchen sink" application would do to my workflows and I was curious about that :-)
I don't have stability issues with digikam while using it on fedora
Right, I'm not switching to Linux just for digikam.
Since digikam can open any lot of images in a side application for edition
If I'm going to open a photo in Lightroom anyways, why not use it for asset management? I'm not wedded to an all-in-one solution, but neither digikam nor darktable/rawtherapee offer enough of an improvement over the respective modules within Lightroom to warrant usage.
Lightroom is a bit of jack of all trades, but it's good enough as a DAM that I'm not wanting for a separate app.