If somebody searching a good native Mac alternative I strongly recommend this fast open source image viewer (ignore the simple web page, software is great!):
Phoenix Slides
It replaced the (abandoneware) Xee3 on my system.
IrfanView
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Re: IrfanView
#252I'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…
For MacOS, I wonder if it's faster than XNView MP. This was the fastest image viewer I could find for Apple Silicon. Also are you running it through Wine on MacOS or how do you get it working?
Ever tried Phoenix Slides (open source, long history)? It's definitely faster than Preview for me on large images:
Re: IrfanView
#253IrfanView shouldn’t be seen as a relic just because it’s “old”. Software like IV, Opus/Far just highlight how inadequate the OS provided tools for common navigation/viewing patterns are. Anyone who breaks through the “the computer is a magical box and I don’t understand any of it” barrier needs to have a manual tossed at them that covers this software right away. Nevermind gdb/WinDbg.
TBF current photo viewer for Win11 is decent, and cover the basics pretty well.
I reinstalled IrfanView from sheer nostalgia, and while it's still a good program, it doesn't handle pinch/zoom gestures as well as the default app. Same for editing, where IV has more features, yet core stuff like handwriting smoothing isn't as good.
The biggest difference between "these days" and now is IMHO the wide availability of other tools to do more advanced stuff. For instance I remember batch processing features and export features in IV that I used a lot, but nowadays I'd do it in Imagemagick or GIMP.
There is less need for a swiss army knife when the specialized tools are right there any time you need them.
Re: IrfanView
#254I'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…
You want to open a picture, FAST, no matter the format or resolution ? You want to open a picture and then move from one picture to the next in the same folder with arrow keys or mouse scroll, again fast and without loading or menus fonctions or whatever ? You want to batch process a folder to convert all files to png with the larger side limited to 2000px, keep the location data but reset the orientation data, and r…
Everything is the best program I have ever used.
I couldn't live without it at this point. It would be like cutting off both arms.
Re: IrfanView
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I opened the link first and I kept a few seconds trying to remember what we had to use to open JPEGs and GIFs back then. Then I read your comment. Right, IE for images. What a fun world we lived on!
ACDSee 2.4 and 3.1 were similarly legendary and fast in both startup time and overall performance of image loading.
Also remember the times... I think ACDsee 2.3.x was a game changer on Windows systems with little memory back in the day... it was so fast and displayed partially on the fly.
Btw I use a Mac nowadays and I get strong ACDsee vibes from open-source Phoenix Slides https://blyt.net/phxslides/ with browsing through images with the mouse-wheel ;)
Re: IrfanView
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Each their own, that's mine. Note that this is not a tech user or developper list, but the list of what I install on any new windows pc, including those at work etc ... 7zip (open any archive) VLC (open any audio/video file) IrfanView (+ the "all plugins" installer on the same page, open any picture file) SumatraPDF (read PDFs) Libreoffice (to open any office files) NAPS2 (easy scan, and split/merge/... PDFs) Ditto (…
Not using windows much anymore, but great to hear about O&O and ExplorerPatcher. I notice you don't list an ssh client. I still install cygwin for that. Anything new besides putty?
SSH client is not for non tech users and I tried to keep my list non tech oriented, something you can install on yours, your mom or Janice from accounting and they will all benefit from it.
For SSH I was a die hard team PuTTy for a long time but these days one of the first thing I install on my windows computer is WSL and a Debian inside, that covers all my SSH needs.
Re: IrfanView
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"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.
Is IRFan Windows-only? Looks like it, too bad, this would be amazing to have on Linux.
I used Gwenview back in the days in Linux. I think it's still great.
Re: IrfanView
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If it's for non-commercial use, you might find this a spritual equivalent, cross-platform: https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/
This comment is baffling. Just so you know, the IrfanView license requires commercial users to pay for a license, just like XnView does. Apparently that's... bad?
also allowed in commercial settings (BSD style license):
Phoenix Slides https://blyt.net/phxslides/
open-source, ignore the simple web page, software is awesome.
Re: IrfanView
#259I personally like "FSViewer" way more. It's customizable, portable and free. It was my favorite software, which was replaced by "XYPlorer", which is a fileExplorer alternative.
FSViewer link: https://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm XYPlorer link: https://www.xyplorer.com/
Re: IrfanView
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BTW windows now ship with a clipboard tool like this using Windows + V shortcut. I use other tools you mentioned already though. Need to try ditto. Is there a list of similarly *fast* alternatives like this for windows (+other OSes)?
Idk if this is still the case but back when I tried the built in clipboard history when it was first released, it didn’t handle formatted text well, nor did it handle multi-media particularly well, if at all. One of the best parts about ditto is that you can choose to paste with or without formatting
Doesn't Ctrl+Shift+v already paste without formatting?