Flameshot
Drop-in replacementFreeClosest to the modern Snipping Tool. Drag out an area and the pen, arrow, highlighter and blur tools appear immediately.
Does Snipping Tool run on Linux?
Verdict: No
No. The Snipping Tool is part of Windows and there is no Linux version, but screen capture is built into every Linux desktop and the Print key does the same job.
Snipping Tool comes with Windows and is not sold or released separately, so there is nothing to look for on Linux.
The habit transfers almost exactly. Press the Print key on a GNOME desktop, which is Ubuntu and Fedora, and a small toolbar appears offering an area, a single window or the whole screen. The shot saves into your Pictures folder and goes onto the clipboard at the same time, ready to paste into an email. The same window can record the screen as a video. KDE systems do the same thing through a tool called Spectacle.
The gap is annotation. Windows lets you scribble on a snip with a pen and highlighter before you send it, and the built-in Linux capture does not. If you circle things in red for a living, install Flameshot, where the drawing tools appear the moment you finish dragging out the area.
Text recognition is the other loss. Recent versions of Snipping Tool can lift words out of a screenshot. There is no equally simple equivalent on a standard Linux desktop, so plan on retyping.
What to use instead of Snipping Tool
GNOME Screenshot
Close matchFreeAlready built into Ubuntu and Fedora. Press Print, choose the area, done. No annotation tools.
This doesn't have to stop you
One stubborn program doesn't have to decide the whole question. You can keep Windows on the same PC and restart into it only when you need Snipping Tool. Everything else you do can move.
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