Originally posted by theedudenator I am playing with Ubuntu and wondered if anyone else uses Linux.
Looking for options to download and label from a SD card and handle RAW files.
You bet. Ubuntu for four years and on Hardy now.
To get the photos off my SD card, I just pop the card out of the camera and plunk it in a USB card reader. Way faster than using a USB cable. Others prefer the cable so to each their own.
Once you have the photos on your puter, may I suggest you start by downloading Geeqie? This is a fork of the venerable GQview tuned for digital photography. It is blazing fast. I use it to do a first run through my PEFs, tossing the bad ones. Then I open them in my RAW converter.
I don't think Geeqie is in the Ubuntu repositories yet so you will have to go to the project page to download and the code and then compile it:
Geeqie Image Viewer
I am using Raw Therapee 2.4m1 now for my RAW conversion and 95% of my post-processing. I have used UFRAW and Lightzone but nothing can touch the results of Raw Therapee. Gabor's demosaicing algorithm is simply the best. Some people balk at its interface but I find it useable and my bottom line is quality, not ease of use. RT is not open source because the source code is not available but it is "donateware" so the author leaves it to you to pay if you wish.
Towards RawTherapee v2.4 - The First Milestone
There are many other options for conversion/post-processing. Many swear by Digikam. Even though it is a KDE app you can still install and run it perfectly well on Gnome. Installing it will pull in all the other libraries needed to run it.
sudo apt-get install digikam
I used UFRAW and the GIMP in the past with great results.
sudo apt-get install ufraw gimp-ufraw
Not sure what you mean by label. If you mean saving with your own filename then any of the GUI apps will allow this.
You have the most control of your photos with *nix platforms. Try out some of the many options out there. We are here if you have other questions.
Jack