Dumb question: How do I open an image

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I can't remember if I asked this before...
How do I open an image from Gimp?

Ctrl O.
But now I have to navigate to exactly where my image is - a painful lengthy navigation of clicking through folders.

I have a habit of:

- Copy the folder path in explorer
- Ctrl O
- Paste folder path and press enter
- I can now select the image

I do this in EVERY single program I use - apart from Gimp!

Love Gimp. It's been many years since I used Photoshop.
I wish this annoying feature could be fixed.

Someone is probably going to come along and defend the way it's setout and the way it works + tell me off for complaining! ?