I like gThumb. It’s color managed, looks good.
Ditto for me. An excellent utility. I use it mostly for batch resizing (resolution and dimensions)
geeqie (is both digital contact sheet and one at a time viewer) that can spawn Darktable and/or Gimp, for the currently selected image (which might be a raw).
It’s not color managed here on a wide gamut screen. Maybe I have an older version?
Dunno, maybe.
i’m also using geeqiee, but i find the plugin system to be frustrating and i am constantly missing the “copy image” (which copies the entire image, as opposed to its path) to the clipboard. considering nomacs (but it was removed from debian), feh (a bit hard to use) and gthumb (doesn’t recurse in directories, which makes browsing darktable libraries frustrating).
i’m trying to keep my flatpak intake to a minimum. an image viewer seems too “core” to delegate that way… Especially since there are so many great options out there…
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I’ve now done a search and found this:
I was able to paste the copied image into the Gimp. I guess you can add it to Geeqie as a plugin (you need to start the server part of the tool at login, probably).
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yeah well, other image views (even the builtin GNOME eog) do this right, so that’s really a point against geeqie in my book. see also the “found the plugin system frustrating”. 
I was just trying to help.
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ah well, sorry for my response, and thanks for the suggestion then.
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Geeqie without any doubts.
Pretty functional, super quick, lot of features and it’s also able to manage sidecar files.
I use it for the first culling operation after a photo session.
XnView was my preferred some years ago, but, as of today, it’s too sluggish compared to geeqie!
Never tried, I will, for batch resizing ImageMagick resize is enough for me!
I don’t resize jpeg’s anymore. If I do it’s Image (or Graphics) Magick. Instead I export a new file from Rawtherapee (previously darktable).
The real pain in this process is the metadata handling, due to poor xmp support, but mentally the Raw file is the master for me and all exported files are just temporary children exported for one specific purpose or another.
Indeed xmp management is usually poor. Geeqie is able to deal with it as long as it’s one file per image. For example darktable creates sidecar files with a slightly different filename (with version number included) when there is multiple versions of the same image. This case isn’t covered by Geeqie.
To rename images and renaming accordingly the xmp files I wrote a little python script, and it wasn’t easy to achieve the support for multiple versions!
Is there still no easy way in gTumb to put two images side by side to compare them exactly? That is and remains the only thing I miss in this great program.
For me, there is NO good software for viewing images, on Linux or elsewhere.
An opportunity to start a thread: “Requirements for developers to design an image viewer” ?
(many developers have very limited image skills and requirements…)
The result will probably have to have a lot of options…
Amazing statement, although there are really very good programs. gThumb is good, as is geeqie.
And then there is the all superior digiKam.
What are you not satisfied with? What are you missing?