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    From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Digital Man on Tuesday, March 10, 2026 16:27:47
    Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Tue Mar 10 2026 04:11 pm

    On Linux, I use Geany as generic GUI text/script editor. Give it a try.

    I'll try it out. Thanks for the recommendation.

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to phigan on Tuesday, March 10, 2026 19:18:26
    Re: Re: 3.5 Floppies
    By: phigan to Nightfox on Tue Mar 10 2026 06:27 pm

    Mainly IrfanView and Notepad++. So far I haven't found a lightweight image

    Dang, IrfanView is some SRS BSNS, they've even put it on snapcraft.io/irfanview

    What is "SRS BSNS"? (Serious business?)

    And IrfanView has been around for a long time.. I've been using it since around 2002, maybe? After 24 years, I'm very used to using it. :)

    Have you seen Nomacs(.org)? There's also XnViewMP and gthumb, that I saw...

    I've installed XnViewMP, although I haven't used it a whole lot yet. And I haven't seen Nomascs or gthumb..

    For Notepad++ replacement, DM's recommendation of Geany is good. Also, if you have plenty of resources, Sublime Edit can be pretty nice. I know there's a paid version, but I just use the free one and haven't run into any roadblocks. I use Geany on my shitty AMD A6 laptop with 4gb ram :).

    I plan to try it out. :)

    Nightfox

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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to Nightfox on Wednesday, March 11, 2026 17:04:55
    Re: Linux software
    By: Nightfox to phigan on Tue Mar 10 2026 07:18 pm

    What is "SRS BSNS"? (Serious business?)

    Yes :). Yeah, I knew Irfanview has been around forever, since the 90s I think, but I guess I don't really get what the big deal about it is. Is it keybindings for flipping through images? Is it features to edit images? I've always used specifically image "editing" apps vs image viewers to make any modifications.. With the exception of the Windows Image Viewer, it made it super easy to flip images right-side up.. you just do it, and it resaves the image that way whether you wanted it to or not :).

    For the text editor, I mentioned Sublime Text or Sublime Edit or whatever it's called because you were talking about liking JSON conversion, which it does.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to phigan on Wednesday, March 11, 2026 17:57:07
    Re: Linux software
    By: phigan to Nightfox on Wed Mar 11 2026 05:04 pm

    Yes :). Yeah, I knew Irfanview has been around forever, since the 90s I think, but I guess I don't really get what the big deal about it is. Is it keybindings for flipping through images? Is it features to edit images?

    I think it's a combination of features and being easy to use. It's more than a simple image viewer, as it has plugins to do various things, but it also has some useful built-in features. And it has always been free and has never been nagware either. One of its features I use sometimes is its batch conversion feature - You can select multiple files with it and have it convert them from one format to another, with settings according to the destination format; you can also have it do things like batch-crop images, etc.. Also, one thing I'm used to with IrfanView is that by default, you can click & drag on an image to select a rectangular region (which you can then copy/cut out, etc.), and I've gotten very used to that. I haven't seen any other image viewer that lets you just open an image and click & drag to select a region (you might have to ues a menu option to enable selecting a region, for instance).

    Basically, it's the features, ease of use, and it's free with no nags.

    Nightfox

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