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IrfanView is a wonderful freeware Windows swiss-army-knife for image viewing & editing.

For me, the key features are fast viewing, simple editing (crop, contrast, brigthness, rotation, resampling), file operations (delete, copy to folder) and extended image information access (exif data) combined in the same interface. Versatile batch jobs are a very nice bonus.

But unfortunately IrfanView is for Windows only, and isn't free software. What would be the nearest equivalent for linux?

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I heart IrfanView. Although for Gnome, I use gthumb as my Linux equivalent. It doesn't have the myriad of swiss-tools that IV has, but quality scaling, cropping and color adjustment suits me well enough. I do love how gthumb imports photos from my camera :D

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Well well, gthumb seems to be quite an excellent equivalent! I wonder why it doesn't come built in with Ubuntu. Many thanks for the tip! – Ilari Kajaste Nov 14 '09 at 14:56
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As a Kubuntu user, I've stuck with the default image viewer for KDE - Gwenview. It's sufficient for everyday operations and I believe you can even extend it with plugins.

And yes, GIMP goes without saying, although it might be too bloated for quick edits. ;)

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+1 gwenview is enough for simple editing, without the need to fire up GIMP. – sybreon Nov 13 '09 at 9:13
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AlternativeTo.net

Personally, I think Picasa from Google is pretty good, although it is not open source.

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Not sure why this was downvoted. I'd +1 but for some reason Super User is telling me my vote can't be changed (bug?). – musicfreak Nov 13 '09 at 8:38
Thanks for the cool link :) – Wesley Werner Nov 13 '09 at 8:52
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I don't know a single solution unfortunately, I ended up using kuickshow for viewing (its the fastest viewer I have seen so far) and the most basic operations, and GIMP for everything else.

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Paint Mono is a linux port of Paint.NET of windows.

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The standard answer is GIMP of course. But you might also like ImageMagick for batch processing.

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GIMP, really? I've of course been using that for image editing, but the power of IrfanView is having editing and viewing in same interface. When I'm browsing images, I don't have to "open them for editing", I can just edit. Also, GIMP takes time to open and has an overly cluttered interface for doing a simple tone adjustment, resample, crop or image type conversion. – Ilari Kajaste Nov 13 '09 at 8:17
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