Irfanview is definitely one of the image viewers of all time.
When I moved away from Windows one of the things I missed was the super lightweight image viewer from the XP and 7 days (even on Windows 10 I used to still copy the exe over from a backup because it was way better than the bloated shitty Photos app, or whatever Microsoft was trying to push)
I really wanted a replacement image viewer that was minimalistic, lightweight, and supported deleting images with a keystroke from the viewer - a feature absolutely essential as I like to arrow-key back and forth through photos and trim the fat, a feature many viewers somehow don’t support.
After trying out just about every option there was, my favourite has ended up being qView.
It’s FOSS, cross platform (Linux, macos, Windows) and pleasantly fast.
XnView is quite feature-complete for my needs, but it’s constantly trying to phone home to Google, so better run it in a sandbox.
Geeqie is better in several ways - e.g. it supports avif and jxl - but it’s missing some features I’ve come to like.
I’ve yet to try qView.
XnView is what I currently use as a Temu Irfanview on Linux. But it’s so awkward compared to Irfanview - everything seems to involve clicks or loading galleries or choosing templates every time. Irfanview does everything I want within a button press or two, and being able to just loop through directories with the mouse wheel is awesome.
Irfanview is definitely one of the image viewers of all time.
When I moved away from Windows one of the things I missed was the super lightweight image viewer from the XP and 7 days (even on Windows 10 I used to still copy the exe over from a backup because it was way better than the bloated shitty Photos app, or whatever Microsoft was trying to push)
I really wanted a replacement image viewer that was minimalistic, lightweight, and supported deleting images with a keystroke from the viewer - a feature absolutely essential as I like to arrow-key back and forth through photos and trim the fat, a feature many viewers somehow don’t support.
After trying out just about every option there was, my favourite has ended up being qView.
It’s FOSS, cross platform (Linux, macos, Windows) and pleasantly fast.
https://interversehq.com/qview
I’ve been using it for… god, feels like centuries at this point. Nothing else will do.
It also has an awesome compression if you resave oversized iphone photos for quick 'net sharing
XnView is quite feature-complete for my needs, but it’s constantly trying to phone home to Google, so better run it in a sandbox.
Geeqie is better in several ways - e.g. it supports avif and jxl - but it’s missing some features I’ve come to like.
I’ve yet to try qView.
XnView is what I currently use as a Temu Irfanview on Linux. But it’s so awkward compared to Irfanview - everything seems to involve clicks or loading galleries or choosing templates every time. Irfanview does everything I want within a button press or two, and being able to just loop through directories with the mouse wheel is awesome.
Qview is very light on features, so if you like featureful it probably isn’t for you :)