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The fastest, easiest, and best way to record screencasts as animated gifs in Linux

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Jul 17, 2016

After having tried multiple different methods of trying to take a screencast and save it as a gif I have come to the conclusion that LICEcap (so far) is the best for Linux. Ultimately, I don’t think there is one really good way to save animated gifs in Ubuntu or Linux, but LICEcap comes the closest.

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