If you're primarily using it to draw you might find Krita less frustrating than the Gimp.
I actually don’t have a drawing tablet. Everything is by hand. That’s part of why I think I have so much trouble with digital retouching and clean-up. I’m having to scan images in first which I finally have mastered but just the fact that they originated from a much messier process where there seems to be a lot more tendency to mess in the lines (blur, texture if you’re using pencil on paper, etc). A drawing tablet is on my long term list but so is a cricut and frankly I kinda really want the cricut first. I really really enjoy doing as much as I can by hand. I’m sure I’ll enjoy digital drawing when I try it but I get a kick out of manipulating images by, say, cutting out pieces and layering them to make compromise images— as opposed to the idea of cut and paste which is just kind of - where’s the fun in that? A number of the pictures in my Queen Book were compiled using collage, etc. I created a bed image template and started nearly every piece off of that.
Wacom tables behave kinda stupid in my opinion. Points on the tablet are mapped to points on the screen so if you pick up the pen and move it the cursor will jump to a different point on the screen instead of staying where it was. At least that's how it was when I used one. An iPad with an Apple pencil is much more intuitive
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article319/krita-brushkit-v8 I tend to use David Revoy's brushes more than the defaults. I think the defaults recently got reworked, tho?