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What is the Windows Equivalent of Popular Linux apps? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Subject6051@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I have to use Windows on my work computer and I am finding it hard to get FOSS applications on Windows that can do stuff like

  1. Record a video (like SimpleVideoRecorder does)
  2. Take a screenshot (there's snip, but it isn't very customizable)
  3. Unzip .zip files

Just the routine things I used to take for granted on Linux, so I was wondering if there was a FOSS app store for Windows

And it would be very helpful if someone could suggest alternative for

  1. SimpleVideoRecorder
  2. Archive Manager

Even the apps I installed for these things either had ads or asked me for payment to record more than 2 minutes of video, I am pretty sure there are FOSS apps to do these things out there, but I don't know where :')

PS: To everyone who has tried to help, thank you very much. I was feeling guilty for not replying to most of you, so I thought I would reply to all of ya, but funnily enough, lemmy had had enough of my gratitude!

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[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

To be fair, these tools are all already built-in

  1. Xbox Game Bar (Win+G)
  2. Windows screenshot (Win+S / Win+Shift+s)
  3. File Explorer (Win+E) can handle .zip, even preview them quite nicely.

I realise these are not open source (and others have already given great open-source options I would give, as well). But you're using Windows already, so why not use Windows?

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

File explorer's built in archiver is still lagging behind, while it's mostly usable, last time I tried to open a password protected rar, and it didn't show a pw dialog just failed silently. 7zip opened it correctly

[–] cizra@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Once I downloaded, installed and used 7zip to extract a .zip archive while Windows Exploder was extracting the same file.

[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Just one little addition: win+shift+s for snipping tool. Let's you select a region, window or whole screen.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but those tools are very inferior. The GUI of 7z is much better for any task, it even adds right click shortcuts to common actions to your files. Same with greenshot. Haven't ever used the game bar's recorder so can't tell about that, but once you learn the very basics of OBS (which is the location of the record button) it's much more flexible, even without that flexibility being in the way.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Everyone else is already giving those, so like I stated I wouldn't repeat them here.

I just added the information that there are also built-in tools for these, this information was missing from the comments.