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There's some irony in this for me personally. My most recent major "I quit Apple" rage moment was trying to get Flameshot (which I use routinely on Linux) working on my Macbook, so I could more easily take screenshots, just to share something with a friend, because the built-in screenshot functionality in MacOS is so clunky. Between Gatekeeper and the XCode upgrade train, Mac OS's dogged insistence on not letting me run the software I wanted it to run worked me into a rage and I swear I'll never buy another Mac for casual daily computing again. They've really ruined the OS.


I’m curious: what is so clunky about the built in screenshot app? I don’t doubt you, I’ve just never had that experience, and I’m curious what I’m missing.


Based on FlameShot app, it seems like his/her use case is more towards taking a screenshot & edit them at the same time.


I use the built-in screenshot function almost daily for years. Clunky is opposite of my experience with it so I’m curious what you mean by that.


Same. It’s one of my most used features. Shortcut -> select area -> paste wherever. It just works.


Could you elaborate more on the issues you ran into? Could you not just download their pre-compiled version and bypass Gatekeeper in the normal way?




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