Just wondering What if Unix and macOS users envy Windows Users, because in Windows you can download and run SBIE & SD? Camelia
Nope, they probably don't feel the need to use SBIE and SD. I don't even need these apps as a Windows user.
I do. I miss FastStone image viewer and CrystalDiskInfo... and a couple of others Not enough to go back to Windows though.
Hello @Joxx I too respected and appreciated CrystalDiskInfo when I was compelled to use Windows© for gubbermint work. However, version 7.2 of Smartmontools has stayed current & Linux compliant. Additionally their dev team seems to be keeping the HDD/SSD database up-to-date on demand. With time, most anyone can write a dumb-simple Smartmon batch job to run @monthly under macOS (BSD based) that's likely quite Linux friendly. Also, keeping tabs on my personal Mac's eight-year-old internal SSD wear stats is a plus. Cheers
I laughed at the title. Then read the punch line. Hard to envy Win users for programs I have never used.
Which OS? On Kubuntu I use Gwenview image viewer for viewing and for simple image manipulations. For anything more advanced I would use GIMP. XnView MP is another alternative for FastStone Image Viewer, and LazPaint another alternative for editing. As an alternative for CrystalDiskInfo, I use GSmartControl, which is a GUI for smartctl (from smartmontools package).
Xubuntu. FastStone has a zoom tool where you left-click with mouse button, keep it pressed, drag the mouse pointer around the image and the zoom follows. As far as I know there's no other viewer with that function and it's oh so useful. And yes, I know you can use Wine to run FastStone but I make a point of only using native programs.
Ah, thanks. In my Windows days, I never discovered that option in FastStone Image Viewer. Same here, I won't use Wine.
Kubuntu 20.04 has a zoom feature; it's not part of the image viewer but "global". On a default install, Super++ zooms in. You can move the mouse pointer and the zoom follows. Super+0 (zero) returns to normal. Gwenview has its own zoom tool and you can navigate to any region of the magnified image.
Thanks, vasa1, I didn't know about that. Super(+)0 didn't work to return to normal for me, though, I had to use Super(+)- (minus). Yes, I know about that, thanks. But both that and the global zoom function are not the same as the FastStone Image Viewer option that Joxx liked so much. I hope Joxx has nice zoom options available on Xubuntu.
This. The problem with vasa1 answer is that every time we talk about something we miss from Windows someone comes and say "but you can do that in Linux". Yes, but we never said you can't do it in Linux, we said you can't do it the same way.
Maybe I fiddled with the zoom defaults some time in the past! While Super + plus and Super + minus incrementally zoom in and out, Super + zero returns to actual size in just one step.
Thanks, vasa1. In my settings, I see that nothing is set for Actual Size. Perhaps you fiddled with the zoom defaults, or perhaps my setting was a Kubuntu 18.04 setting that was kept in 20.04, because I did a partially clean installation, in which I kept my /home partition including my 18.04 settings [1].
Mine was a clean install of 20.04. I'm now sure I didn't alter the defaults because the defaults button isn't active. The desktop effects page has a "global" defaults button and but individual effects (which have internal options) have their own defaults and those default buttons turn clickable once the defaults are altered. I'll check with my 21.04 version on another machine in a while and post back. Edit: Super+zero is default in 21.04 too.
