Krita is pretty nice too. Better than Gimp if you are creating images but while I can "draw" a bucket of water I can't draw anything else.
I want to try fotoxx out because it may be a better match for some people as it sounds a bit simpler to use than Gimp. Have never used it and think Mageia is the place to try that out.
I have not used darktable much the default look is too dark for me and I really need to see if I can do something about that because it looks interesting, the headache I get from black themed applications is not. But if I would just get into the files with Gimp for a bit I can probably fix that.
Exiv2 is something everyone should have. I don't use my phone as a camera much, pixel density is too low on phones, and I don't have GPS enabled on it. Most normal people use the phone cameras and have GPS enabled. This is fine, and very handy, I would like GPS on my next camera. With that you can take a photo of some place months or years apart by checking the exif data stored in the image file. Way too many people are not aware of this, take a cute picture of their cat being weird in the kitchen and then post that picture along with the GPS coordinates for their kitchen. This is not a real great internet security policy. With Exiv2 you can delete the exif data or edit it so it doesn't include things like the ability to put a big red X on your house in some mapping application on line.
I do some spraying of noxious weeds (invasive species that will take over due to no competition) and GPS coordinates from a GPS unit combined with some phots we take really makes going back to the exact spots easy. Great tools but people do need to know that the "locations services" in phones can also be extremely handy for bad actors wanting to know you habits and selfies posted with that sort of information of what you are doing all day is not a smart thing to do. Just like a weed possition anyone with that data can retrace, within feet, your movements. Wipe that info from your pictures before posting or turn off the "location services".
Mageia is due for a prolonged visit from me just for doing some image work. Have been hammering away setting up some chroot scripts for managing my 8 installs on my internal drives. Need a break from constant Debian usage. I think a few days of Mageia will be fun.
Also need to update/upgrade packages on the Loaner Drive. While running on it I will be deleting one of my Debian testing installs so that I can install the Mageia 6 stuff to get back into how all that process works and get the subscription to mailing lists and so forth.
I also need to do some serious hunting in the Magea files. I am one of the Xfce users. Will not get started on how great it is. But the keybindings are one of the things I like along with the way they are managed in Xfce. One of them behaves slightly differently in Magea and Debian. This difference is not from the Settings Editor>xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts. At least I don't think so. One moves the focused window in a Workstation to the target workstation (Debian) and the other moves both the focused window and the user to the target workstation (Mageia). Both these behaviors have some distinct advantages. This is the sort of thing that sets off my curiousity. So I need to track down just what makes this difference.
A slight modification to the key bindings in both distros could give me both functionalities in both distros. I don't use a lot of key bindings but the ones I use I use a lot. I really like both those behaviors for different types of use cases and will have them both on all installs when I figure this out.
Need to record the settings in Debian carefully before shifting over to Mageia.
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~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml
should be handy.