I'm not about to switch to Linux (or Windows) any time soon. None of them do printing as well or in as sophisticated a manner as Lightroom Classic does, which is why I haven't entirely switched to them as yet. Phocus and Photos are both free and do excellent raw conversion, cross over the important boundaries (macOS->iOS->iPadOS) for me, and RAW Power is very reasonably priced and extends Photos capabilities.
I'm fairly enthused by the combination of Phocus, Photos, and RAW Power. I haven't used PS for years, and find the latest incarnations to be incredibly too complex for what I need now. At $10/month, it's not a financial burden although I hate paying a monthly for software use. Lightroom (now Lightroom Classic) does an excellent job and after trying two or three alternatives to LR 6.14, I found the best path for the moment was to upgrade to LrC and keep going until I come up with a better solution. I don't consider a photograph "done" until I have a print of it on paper. Well, RAWTherapee isn't my raw conversion tool of choice (Apple's own raw conversion engine does a better job IMO, and it's free on macOS and iOS). I can fine tune compression and size to get under certain limits without doing a bunch of trial and error adjustments.Hmm. I like how when you are exporting to JPG it will actually show you a preview and estimate file size. Gimp has more brushes and things like that, layers, and artistic effects. Curves and levels and that kind of stuff you can pretty much do in anything. I love its paremetric masking capabilities, and how each tool can remember and use the masks. Have to be very careful with that one to just bring things out a little and not overdo them. I really like its contrast equalizer for bringing out fine details. Color temperature adjustments, chromatic aberration, RAW denoise.
I agree with acommonsoul Gimp is Photoshop's equivalent and Darktable is Lightrooms. Yeah, a lot of apps especially the open source/freeware stuff is slow to catch on to new file formats like canon CR3. Gimp won't open RAW files though will it? Gimp will actually open fit files and will export jpg, tiff etc. Kind of gave up on rawtherapee, seg faults right out of the gate with Canon EOS R files. Strangely I've found dark table as well as rawtherapee kind of wonky for my daytime photography.
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