There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

What is the Windows Equivalent of Popular Linux apps?

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 :')

_Atlas_ ,

Check out scoop and chocolatey

DieserTypMatthias ,
@DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml avatar

And winget.

sodalite ,

LibreOffice for replacing Microsoft Office

wargreymon ,

Linux is replacing Windows

Blizzard ,

LibreOffice works on Windows too.

MonkderVierte ,

ODF for OOXML.

Hawke ,

For screenshots I recommend Greenshot. Simple to use and good annotation tools.

simpleguy ,
@simpleguy@cuddly.space avatar

@Subject6051 Most of apps famous in linux are available on windows.

Funny part is while joining Linux we searched alternatives and now for leaving it we need alternatives 😅

Subject6051 OP ,

Indeed! I gotmyself accustomed to a routine of using featherpad instead of notepad, using Kpaint instead of paint, it’s weird to be back. “Hey Windows, it’s me again, I hate you, but I have been told I must use you.”

Pretty weird, it’s getting back at me by showing me the wrong time every time I login! :')

theshatterstone54 ,

Yeah, I use a tiling WM at home, so having to deal with Windows’ way of doing things at college computers was very annoying, especially when the Super+L keybind I used to Launch apps, was used on Windows to Lock the machine. Locking your PC while trying to open an app is very, very annoying.

Sami ,
@Sami@lemmy.zip avatar

For video recording I use OBS and for zip files I use 7-Zip

infeeeee ,

7zip doesn’t support the new win11 rightclick menu (yet), nanazip is a fork with full win11 support:

github.com/M2Team/NanaZip

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • [email protected]
  • random
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
  • All magazines
    •