Krita’s text tool, in the current version you are using, is something Krita has been suffering from for a long time, and therefore it is currently being completely reworked and rewritten.
This means that you will soon be able to edit the text directly on the canvas, that the text can adapt to existing shapes, speech bubbles for example, and many more improvements.
If you want to know more about this, read @wolthera’s Text Tool Thread about it.
If you want to try out the already finished parts of it, then download one of the Krita Next Nightlies, I recommend you use the portable version, because you can use it parallel to the installed version of Krita, but not at the same time, and it would then use the settings of your default installation, with everything you may have installed in it. So you would always remain in your familiar working environment with all the tools, only gaining a few new capabilities.
However, you have to be careful to save very often in between, because it’s not a fully tested developer version, and it might crash more often (although it hardly ever does for me), it’s just part of being honest about it. So always pay attention to this, otherwise there is a theoretical risk of losing a lot of work, when you could have taken precautions!
You can download the Windows versions from here, daily fresh with the newest additions:
The portable version is the ZIP-File at the bottom, you would have to unzip it to a folder where you have full read and write access, for instance your desktop, or your download folder, and after unzipping it, you will find three links in the root-directory of the unzipped portable Krita, double-click the one named krita.lnk to start the portable Krita (it is possible that you don’t see the file name extension lnk, that happens when you have not enabled to show file name extensions, but it works without seeing the extension, so simply double-click on the link-file krita).
Michelist