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Microsoft might be trying to sneak Bing into one of Windows 11’s apps – and some users won’t be happy (www.techradar.com)
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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The snipping tool.

Guess I'll need to block that so users don't accidentally send confidential information to Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (2 children)

JFC Microsoft has no chill. Snip is practically the last thing in windows that works right.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Funny enough it's also one of the few places Windows was kicking Linux's ass on a feature

Finding a passable replacement for the snip tool was probably the biggest issue I had moving to Linux unironically, tookultiple tries of many tools, a lot of config, and it still takes an extra click over Snip

I use it all day at work and then get home and miss it when I wanna clip funny shit in my games, then remember it's a different keybind with an enter keypress

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Flameshot (my auto correction changed that to something bad) is golden if you are on Xorg, it's a little more complicated on the Wayland side of things.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Interesting, I tried like 5 tools and Flameshot (my fucking autocorrect also made it flame shit lol) never once came up

Gonna give it a go when I get home

I really do like being back on Linux but it's this "someone only tells me about the exact software I need once I whine about it 3 weeks later on a different fucking Forum" that gets exhausting, lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit. Just downloaded it and it's got a lot of great features. I can't find the shortcut to actually take a screenshot though. Do you have to click the icon in the panel?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah you do. But you can set a hotkey in your DE for that, just execute flameshot when you press print, that's what I do.

Sadly, I'm on Wayland and it doesn't really work well yet there, last time I checked at least. Flameshot is amazing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I have been using Spectacle for a few years now, I quite prefer it over snip (though the last version of snip I used was win7)!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

On my phone ATM but I'm pretty sure that's what I ended up using as well

It's 95% there but it's incredibly annoying to have to hit enter or space to confirm my screenshot area every time when I'm used to it just getting that from release of the mouse button

Dug around the settings and even googled it and it doesn't seem there's a way to make it do that, so it's just shy of snip

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

then try on a mac

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Mac version is such a joke too. It's almost as good but just not quite there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

What’s wrong with the Mac snipping tool? I can hit cmd-shift-5 to move a resizable window around and set the tools options, like whether to save to file or clipboard, etc. If I hit the shortcut again, the window stays in its previous position, which is handy for one of my particular use cases. You can also hit cmd-shift-4 to get the pointer to click and drag the snip region like in Windows, and the settings chosen with the other format persist

I feel like I have more capability in the Mac snipping interface, but maybe I’m using the Windows one wrong?

Edit - Oh, is it because you can just click on the banner notification thing then directly mark up the screenshot?”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Didn't know about the 4 option, only 5. That will help a lot. The only problem now is getting it on the clipboard. I press cmd c but sometimes the snip tool isn't active for whatever weird reason so I have to click the bar first.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

If you do the 5 option then click the Options button in the toolbar, then check both the “Remember Last Selection” and “Save To… Clipboard” you’ll just have to hit cmd-v to paste the snipped image. I’ve never had to hit cmd-c for anything when snipping on Mac myself, so I might be misunderstanding idk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean you can send your Mac snip to preview and mark it up that way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah. I don’t really mark up my screenshots with my main screenshot use case right now though. I was just trying to figure out what the difference was.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Damn... I wonder how my employer would feel about this. I am guessing this is for win11 peasant edition?