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Re: IrfanView

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Post by j45 »

jajko wrote: post #25
yau8edq12i wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The built-in viewer in windows is fine. I can't really think of a feature that it doesn't have that I need. Could you say why irfanview gets your vote?

The speed, plugins ecosystem, many more formats supported out of the box, crop being faster and more intuitive, often good enough auto adjust. Irfan for images and vlc for video is the name of the game for me (and total commander for file management, the efficiency compared to simpler stuff is still in wow territory).

IrfanView started so long ago, got and stayed so far ahead.

Wish there was a mac version, but it can be run in an emulator easy enough.

Re: IrfanView

#92

Post by integricho »

101008 wrote: post #43
donatj wrote: post #38

That’s a name I have not heard in a long while. I used to use it back on Windows 95 because it was a faster way to view JPEGs than opening Internet Explorer. Everything about that makes me feel old.

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.

Re: IrfanView

#93

Post by hilbert42 »

nickjj wrote: post #82
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

IMO it's up there, I've been using it for over 20+ years. IrfanView and foobar2000 (mp3 player) haven't left my side since I started using them. Ditto (clipboard manager) has also earned its place.

Right, foobar2000 is great isn't it?

Re: IrfanView

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Post by integricho »

monkpit wrote: post #84
nickjj wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMO it's up there, I've been using it for over 20+ years. IrfanView and foobar2000 (mp3 player) haven't left my side since I started using them. Ditto (clipboard manager) has also earned its place.

To add to that, for me mplayer was clutch for a long time, nowadays I opt for VLC though.

mv2player was a really good option for a period of time, it's a shame it just disappeared, not even it's source code can be found.

Re: IrfanView

#95

Post by jenscow »

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…

Because the chances of Google closing accounts or losing data is much lower than a consumer's usb drive being damaged or lost.

Re: IrfanView

#96

Post by cynicalsecurity »

redder23 wrote: post #67

Ah, the nostalgia when Windows what so shitty that you actually needed a tool for the simplest of the simplest tasks of viewing images in all kinds of formats. I see no need for it for myself as even Windows has a default image viewer that is enough for me and I mainly use Linux anyway and every decent distro comes with a tool for that. Gnome and KDE both have their own that fit into the DE perfectly.

Windows is still shitty. Same way, I've been on Linux for more than a decade already. Windows at work still hugely sucks.

Re: IrfanView

#97

Post by copperx »

jajko wrote: post #25
yau8edq12i wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The built-in viewer in windows is fine. I can't really think of a feature that it doesn't have that I need. Could you say why irfanview gets your vote?

The speed, plugins ecosystem, many more formats supported out of the box, crop being faster and more intuitive, often good enough auto adjust. Irfan for images and vlc for video is the name of the game for me (and total commander for file management, the efficiency compared to simpler stuff is still in wow territory).

DidectoryOpus is even better, but it's expensive.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by hilbert42 »

thih9 wrote: post #28
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

Most people look at images via browser these days.

"...via browser these days."

'Most people' = LCD/lowest common denominator.

If one doesn't mind grovelling around at the bottom then that's fine.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by [deleted] »

pdntspa wrote: post #50
thih9 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most people look at images via browser these days.

Who cares what 'most people do'? Why are we constantly resorting to this tired refrain of "majority rules"? Have you all forgotten that niche things exist?

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