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520 points omnibrain | 1 comments | 30 Mar 24 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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instagraham ◴[30 Mar 24 17:21 UTC] No.39876705[source]▶
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
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gsich ◴[30 Mar 24 17:30 UTC] No.39876791[source]▶
It's not.
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j45 ◴[30 Mar 24 17:32 UTC] No.39876815[source]▶
Alternative?
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yau8edq12i ◴[30 Mar 24 17:35 UTC] No.39876837[source]▶
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?
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1. jacekm ◴[30 Mar 24 19:02 UTC] No.39877614[source]▶
It's about speed mostly. And I got used to the shortcuts, ctrl+r to resize, 'i' to check image metadata. I don't really use any of the editing features (I use Paint.NET for edits). In theory I don't need a dedicated image viewer but I like IrfanView so much that I even paid for it so I can have it on company's laptop.