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IrfanView
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Re: IrfanView
#52Why are most comments referring to having used this in the past tense? I was under the impression that it was still the best image viewer in town, on Windows at least
I prefer JPEGView on Windows. What do you think is the best alternative for Linux?
Re: IrfanView
#53Why are most comments referring to having used this in the past tense? I was under the impression that it was still the best image viewer in town, on Windows at least
It is very much present tense at least to me. It’s among the first programs on all new Windows machines that I set up.
Plus, there are Windows Store and portable versions which help to use it on otherwise locked-down company computers.
Re: IrfanView
#54I wish this program was either open source, or had a plugin API.
Re: IrfanView
#55Why are most comments referring to having used this in the past tense? I was under the impression that it was still the best image viewer in town, on Windows at least
XnView is great. Although I had to tweak the CSS to have a clean UX removing all the excess edges and separators and add dark background.
Re: IrfanView
#564MB to download the installer, back in the days when programs just did the thing they did and didn't include runtimes for entire virtual environments.
But what if you want to display Full HD video in the image viewer from an URL? Wouldn't you need Electron for that?
Also I was under the impression just the DLLs for all the image formats would be over 4 MB. I wonder how large is it uncompressed.
Re: IrfanView
#57Re: IrfanView
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because of a few things: 1. Windows 11 now ships with quite a decent and powerful image viewer/editor that covers most average users' use cases, therefore lowering the demand from people to go out of their way to find alternatives, like in the Windows XP days, which is a good thing (less likely to go download malware from the first Google result of "image viewer for Windows XP"). 2. PC usage behavior has changed a lo…
The "enshittification" of computing. The Windows 11 default Photo Viewer has probably 20% of the features of IrfanView - and the problem is that normal users don't know a better tool exists for free if they need those extra features. As the resident techie in my house I get asked by people to do simple things like overlay text in a certain style or print a photo with a particular resolution or print multiple photos e…
I'm guessing even if they knew the tool existed they would still rather ask you to do it. Not everyone wants to understand computers or download programs
Re: IrfanView
#59Around 2000-2007 I used something similar to this one (Windows XP/7 times), I can't recall the name right now.
Someone remember other popular image viewers at the time?
Re: IrfanView
#60Why are most comments referring to having used this in the past tense? I was under the impression that it was still the best image viewer in town, on Windows at least
It is very much present tense at least to me. It’s among the first programs on all new Windows machines that I set up. Plus, there are Windows Store and portable versions which help to use it on otherwise locked-down company computers.
I was like this too. I moved away from windows machines (to Linux) for good in 2019 though so now I don’t use it.
If I had to go back it would def be one the first I installed.