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Windows comes with pretty good tools for these already.
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Game Bar can do this and is built in, or ShareX for short clips
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Snipping tool is pretty full featured and built in. ShareX is also good.
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Windows handles ZIP natively.
Windows' handling of ZIP files is very poor. I recommend PeaZip or 7zip.
Can't say I've ever had issues, but PeaZip is good and integrates nicely.
Pictures: Snagit. Videos: Camtasia.
Hypercam 2 and WinRAR?
For screenshots, I've been pushing Greenshot as it has built in editing capabilities and has been quite stable on Windows 11
For .zip files, I still stick with 7-zip. It does what it does and has never given me issue.
For simple screen recording, I could only find not-so-simple OBS that let me record a part of a screen. In the end it's a good and reliable solution once you set up and save the local area I want to record. Not so spontaneous, but solid.
I edit the videos in KDEnlive Windows install, which is excellent for this work. I have a smooth process and create many videos quickly.
OBS is just amazing and does not need admin to install 🥰
It is also not complicated, contrary to how some like to frame it. Sure there's a bunch of buttons and panels, but you can ignore 90% of them, or even hide them.
For screenshot, you can use Flameshot which do have a Windows version and even a macOS version:
WSL
ShareX and .7z
Video recorder: OBS
Screenshot utility: built into most desktops
Archive manager: Built into most file managers
LibreCAD is shittier version of AutoCAD. Also, we don't have anything like Inventor on Linux. But we do have Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games Launcher.
On the build of Windows 11 I'm using PrintScr has been replaced with the snipping style screenshot tool (used to be Shift+Win+S) instead of the fullscreen screenshot like before.
To be fair, these tools are all already built-in
- Xbox Game Bar (Win+G)
- Windows screenshot (Win+S / Win+Shift+s)
- 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?
Just one little addition: win+shift+s for snipping tool. Let's you select a region, window or whole screen.
Added!
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.
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.
Once I downloaded, installed and used 7zip to extract a .zip archive while Windows Exploder was extracting the same file.
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
Doesn't the snipping tool also allow video capture now?
it does, but it's pretty inconvenient. ShareX is better (which I installed after listening to the suggestions)
obs, flameshot/sharex, and 7-zip
exactly what I did
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
The Gold standard in the screen recording world is OBS. It's not only available for Linux, but also for Windows and, well, is the gold standard. If you ask the question if OBS can do this-or-that regarding screen recording, the answer generally is yes (or "yes, via plugin"). Just use OBS on all platforms, it's clearly the most mature screen recording tool out there.
You can even use it as a virtual camera. I’ve had lots of fun with that one in meetings.
I used Game Bar to record my videos back in the day. But it's just too basic.
- Windows has built in simple zip manager. If you need more, go with 7-zip as others suggested.
7-zip is amazing! thank you!
- OBS Studio, or even Xbox Game Bar (built-in, but might be disabled at your work PC)
- ShareX
- 7-Zip