This is a timely thread. I’m trying to ditch lightroom because it’s just way too expensive, but the reason I keep using it is that content aware healing tool. I’m a film photographer and a lot of what I do is get rid of dust from scanning negatives. Do any of these solutions have something similar? (I mean, yeah, I could google it, but maybe someone has some experience to share)

Edit: I just watched a video on the retouch tool in darktable. It seems like an excruciatingly painful exercise to just remove a spot. I may need to just keep giving adobe $15/mth