Exposure (lighten or darken an image)
Filmic RGB (control how light the whites and how dark the blacks)
Color Calibration (set the white balance)
Color Balance RGB (enhance colors and color contrasts)
RGB Primaries (rarely, but color correction)
Diffuse or Sharpen (Sharpen)
Crop
Tone Equalizer (raise shadows)
Retouch (fix spots)
Rotate and Perspective
Len Correction (fix distortion in wide angle lenses)
For the most part, I don't even touch most of these. But I'd add profiled denoise, though it's probably auto applied and you don't need to touch it (like lens correction).
Here's a tutorial with a suggested list: https://luxagraf.net/essay/craft/darktable-getting-started
For the most part, I don't even touch most of these. But I'd add profiled denoise, though it's probably auto applied and you don't need to touch it (like lens correction).