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Re: IrfanView

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hilbert42 wrote: post #78
Rinzler89 wrote: post #14

Earlier 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…

"...and people now have most of their pics in the cloud or on their phone," ...until Google closes their account or their data becomes otherwise inaccessible! It horrifies me that so many people are so willing to commit their valuable data to the cloud just because of convenience. Leaving aside Big Tech's spying on users and selling away their privacy, users who commit data to the cloud put its integrity and ultimate…

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Re: IrfanView

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

knighthack wrote: post #81

I've been using IrfanView since at least 1997, if not earlier in 1996. I still use IrfanView to this day. It's my Swiss knife for a lot of simple photo editing work (cropping, resizing, padding, text-adding, etc), batch-processing, and for browsing single photos through directories. It's not just good, it's way faster than the bloated alternatives. To top it off, IrfanView works beautifully on my Linux via Wine, and…

"It's not just good, it's way faster than the bloated alternatives."

Another shining endorsement of "modern" software development (no, check that... software "engineering")

Before I gave up Windows permanently, and that was over 20 years ago, I used this program.

The more things "change" the more they stay the same.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by nolok »

elrostelperien wrote: post #144
jhalstead wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have a link for Ditto? Searching for "Ditto app" and "Ditto software" returns several possible results for me (e.g. clipboard, music app, managing "copy", content sharing).

The most famous is the clipboard one ( https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/ ). I'd be surprised if they were referring to another "Ditto" software.

You are correct, this is the one I meant. It claims to handle windows clipboard "shortcomings" by remember previous entries and allowing you to access it easily (allowing for multi copy paste situation), and it does just that and do it well.

Re: IrfanView

#154

Post by dantondwa »

shzhdbi09gv8ioi wrote: post #36
instagraham wrote: post #12

Why 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 used to use irfranview for many years, but I rarely ever use Windows anymore. I recently started to use oculante [1] for image viewer because its cross os. Before that, I used imv on Linux and xee on macOS. 1: https://github.com/woelper/oculante

This is amazing! Thank you for sharing it.

Re: IrfanView

#155

Post by Rinzler89 »

hilbert42 wrote: post #86
nutrie wrote: post #75

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I rarely use Windows these days, but IrfanView feels lightning fast compared to the built-in Photos app or whatever they call it. I started using IV I think on Win 98 and it's still as snappy and reliable as it always has been.

I haven't used the latest Windows viewer because I'm no longer prepared to upgrade to the latest versions of Windows, but the old version was a dog of a program compared to IrfanView, it was slow, couldn't display many formats and would misbehave if the image files were damaged. And yes, at times it flickers and or images can tear.

The recent photo viewer is great. I never felt the need to install Irfan anymore just to view photos since .. a long time now.

I mean why would I? If all I need is viewing a couple of photos every now and then, cropping and rotating one or two and drawing some circles on them to highlight something in a screenshot and Windows already does that then why bother with Irfan other than habit and nostalgia.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by nuancebydefault »

hilbert42 wrote: post #78
Rinzler89 wrote: post #14

Earlier 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…

"...and people now have most of their pics in the cloud or on their phone," ...until Google closes their account or their data becomes otherwise inaccessible! It horrifies me that so many people are so willing to commit their valuable data to the cloud just because of convenience. Leaving aside Big Tech's spying on users and selling away their privacy, users who commit data to the cloud put its integrity and ultimate…

Wait a minute, if you don't have copies of data in the cloud, you have copies on HDDs and CDRWs? From experience I know that those fail within 10 years or so. Lot's of my data is already 20+ years in the cloud.
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