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520 points omnibrain | 3 comments | 30 Mar 24 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 1.047s | source
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knighthack ◴[30 Mar 24 18:56 UTC] No.39877578[source]▶
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 also on my Mac M1/M2 machines (and as a tool quicker than even Mac's own Preview). It's a primary install for me, whichever any platform I'm working on; and a software that's truly a gift to the world.

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1. dean2432 ◴[31 Mar 24 06:53 UTC] No.39882023[source]▶
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?
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2. therealmarv ◴[31 Mar 24 09:35 UTC] No.39882757[source]▶
Ever tried Phoenix Slides (open source, long history)? It's definitely faster than Preview for me on large images:

https://blyt.net/phxslides/

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3. dean2432 ◴[31 Mar 24 13:42 UTC] No.39884166[source]▶
Never heard of it. Just threw some very highres jpeg2000 images at it and wow, i am blown away. It runs circles around XnView MP (and preview) on these!! Thanks :)