this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2025
177 points (98.9% liked)
Asklemmy
51109 readers
518 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Irfanview https://www.irfanview.com/
It's literally one of the only reasons I'm still using Windows.
No other image viewer is as fast and as useful.
Just installed ifranview via winetricks install program option. Ifranview works on Linux 😀
It's the VLC of porn photo viewing
People still use porn photos?
Why not?
Because videos exist?
alternatively you could use your imagination. get used to it without porn and you'll have better sex too.
I'm sure you have your reasons, but I just cannot imagine continuing to use Windows over image viewing software?
xnview for me, and it's cross-platform
Same here. Every time I have used Linux or MacOS for long periods of time as my main OS. I run into that moment when I need/want to look at images (or even just one), and all the other fun things go right out the door. It is such a weird problem that other viewers can't manage to "feel correct," Always amazes me at how this one program is the cause of such a specific emotional response from me. lol
I try out Xnview from time to time on Windows to try and adapt to it, but always run into just something (but it is a very good program and is why I make the effort to check-in on it at all). I think that in Xnview's case, it is just waaaay too much going on and even with the massive amount of settings I can't find the ones that "just work" for me. Just end up installing it through WINE and deal with the random weird things that come from using it that way (most tend to be the UI looking so different due to not matching the OS and presenting the fake C: when opening a file from the menu). And still "feels" much better.
Other more simple viewers also don't "feel" right due to not having some of the additional settings/features Irfanview has for light editing. Would maybe help in the case of Xnview if someone was able to mod it to have Irfanview look (kind of like the various mods of GIMP to layout like Photoshop) and hide the tons of advanced stuff that Irfanview doesn't have in sub menus or a toggle to switch to the normal setup. Though I can get it kind of close if I play around with moving stuff around on the main toolbar. So still like the best next option I have used.
Hey i really love xnview but why do you install it with wine? Xnview is also available on linux.
Sorry if my wording was bad. I meant installing Irfanview with WINE. Xnview having versions for the different platforms is a major good thing. If I can get myself to use it more than I do Irfanview, then I at least know any future jumps to daily using Linux or Mac OS will work fine (at least for image viewing lol).
Wow, I used that late 90s or early 2000s it was great.
I will have to try it under WINE in Linux