I've been using it ever since on my windows machines because I've never found anything even coming close to it. I don't need anything feature rich with a 5 second startup time. I need something that's 500ms away.

What are you complaining about, we have XV, which is about as humanly close to perfection as you can get in application design.

I'm pretty sure you can close the editor on the left and the settings on the right.

But Irfanview for Linux would be pretty sweet!

You can close both menus