

Improvements to the UI & lossless editing are nice, 20 years too late, but nice. Outside of that we are still 19 years behind PS, feature parity is impossible, anywhere near the same productivity is impossible :/
Feels like the foss community is a bit unlucky with gimp, there are so many truly great productivity tools outside of this one area.
Read the arch wiki if you are in doubt, go through manual install once for experience, follow the arch wiki guide for that too.
Arch wiki is life, YT guides are basically useless for this.