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Yes, you’ve got it 👍

You can basically just treat everything available in Discover as good, because everything there will either be from Debian or from Flathub.

I’m on Debian 13 too but have the GNOME desktop environmet.

Just to clarify what others are saying: the ‘software store’ (Discover in your case) is just the graphical application that you use to manage the software installed on your computer. The repositories, aka ‘repos’ are the sources of that software. There are people whose job it is to vet the software in those repositories and make sure that it’s safe. Flatpak is a packaging format. The biggest repository (and what you likely have enabled) for flatpaks is Flathub. If you’re installing software from the Debian repo and Flathub you should be fine. You should be able to verify which repositories are enabled via the Discover app. You have the freedom to add other repositories too, but it will be your own responsibility to evaluate whether those sources are trustworthy if you do.

Long story short, if you just use Debian as it is, you are fine.

Don’t worry, I get KDE updates in GNOME.

Yeah! The workarounds I had before were complicated and didn’t perform very well, so this is a major improvement.

I suspect that it will be easy for the GIMP team to make this a new layer type of its own and make it even simpler too.

I love how much simpler it is in this release to make independent effects/adjustment layers. You just make a group layer and set the mode to ‘Pass through’. Then the adjustments/effects/filters you put on it are a) applied to all layers below it b) fully non-destructive and c) can have their own mask.

The number of adjustments you can make non-destructively - and have full control over - makes GIMP 3.2 the most powerful non-destructive editor that I know of.