the image viewer sucks dick as well as anything else that has a big ass desktop hiding splash screen
does this not apply to image viewer
i wouldn’t know… i’m an irfan view man…
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man every desktop OS fucking sucks these days, just in different ways at the edges. i split time between mac and pc and hate them both. i had a long stint on linux and hate it too.
i acknowledge that the desktop OS is an exceedingly difficult problem to solve, but that doesn’t negate the fact that we’re at a high-point in capability and a relative low-point in usability.
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flux is real good except i absolutely cannot stand the color alterations. i could probably use the reduced eye strain, but i just hate how distorted my color comprehension becomes after using it for awhile. stuck with it for 6-9 months but retired it. maybe i should bring it back, since my eyes do weird shit now that i am forced to stare at screens for 90+% of my waking hours
e: and i just installed it on my work computer and i’m already feeling like i should resume using it. immediate relief for eye strain, sheesh
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I didn’t feel like I needed flux until I upgraded to a 27" monitor with modern brightness levels and colours and then it made a massive difference to my eye strain in the evening
windows vista mspaint is still the best paint tool because when you’re trying to do some pixel art and use the line tool it doesn’t stop and pop up some shit for you to stretch out or drag out the perfectly good line you just drew or a bunch of other bullshit because maybe you just want to make simple lines without being harassed the way people have been drawing for eternity
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it breaks my heart but i have to fight you now
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No version of paint saves custom colors when you close the dialogue box even though there are 20 little slots. You actually only get one. It’s been like this for two decades now.
Irfanview does so many cool things, but I need that mouse wheel to zoom rather than flip between images. I’ve been sticking with win10’s photo viewer too.
Paint.net handles extremely large (dimension, not file size wise) jpgs better than Photoshop strangely.
Windows 95 used to have a dope default WAV editor that you could add, subtract, stretch, echo, etc. It was like the sound equivalent of MSPaint. I have no idea where it went, but I was never able to make cool custom sounds for my games after that…
Edit: apparently this is what I’m looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Recorder_(Windows)
I imagine anyone with Windows XP still has the EXE for this? You just have to search for SNDREC32.EXE? I’ll do a few minutes of google searching and if I get a hit I’ll edit this post again.
@doolittle twin peaks much?
2nd Edit: Got lots of hits. There’s a lot of SNDREC32.EXE’s floating out there that apparently work with Windows 7 when run as an administrator. I don’t know if it’s the original SNDREC32 or a way to hack into my soul, so I haven’t clicked further down the rabbit hole.
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most old windows binaries will still run in newer versions so if you can track it down…
Oh, I accidentally deleted my post.
It said:
My dad and I used that tool to learn how to say things backwards, record it, and reverse it. Our cow print gateway came with a skinny cylindrical mic.
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Sound recorder was the corner stone of our jug-grind band. Every track started with the clunk of the space bar which was the keyboard shortcut for record.
I swear my friend copied the exe over when his family upgraded to XP, so we could keep things consistently bad.
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Please acquire this for me dear god
my win 10 husk now contains this bafflingly vast asus gtx1080 overclock strix pulsating eater of saints and devils
it has twice the ram of its new home and is glowing green which means it is cold as fucc
i think i want to turn this rig into a wallmount, seems like a thing to do
i need to put dork souls 3 on now
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I used Goldwave to do similar things.
Why not use Audacity though???
Looks like there’s a ‘sound recorder’ already in Windows 7, but all it does is record and save.
s/o to the others in the “accidentally having more vram than main memory” club
XnView can do just this with a simple setting change:
Been using it for years now ever since when I was deciding way back I noticed Irfanview struggled with large gifs and Xn didn’t. I think it basically does all the stuff that Irfan can do like easy cropping and resizing and batch processing. The built-in file browser is also real great for organizing photos.
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friendship ended with IRFAN
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as i’ve not really had much opportunity to use illustrator, am wondering what inkscape is lacking in
my impression of windows 10, from the systems i have used that have it, is that it is in a state of perpetual update, always seeking new things to download and to fix things that are not broken
who needs software when you have updates?