terryMc wrote:
The GIMP is not capable of editing anything more than 8-bit images. Raw photos are higher than that. If you don't want Photoshop/Lightroom, try Affinity Photo 2.0. Not as capable as Camera Raw/Lightroom, but is a perpetual licence, not a subscription, and will edit your raw files.
This is incorrect. The current version of GIMP supports 8, 16 & 32 bit Integer, and 16 & 32 bit Floting Point images.