7zip better tho
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Better, faster, doesn't ask for money, installs in a moment.
On Windows you should use Nanazip
winget install -e --id M2Team.NanaZip
What are the benefits over 7zip?
Works in the context menu
You can see the full list of their features under features
Windows 11 context menu is ugly so I switched it back to the old style one and have all the 7zip context menu items I need. But this is good if you don't want to do that. Might try it out at a later date!
Yeah I also have context menu 7zip in win 11
Or Peazip.
Uhm? No.
Russia and China-backed hackers are exploiting WinRAR zero-day bug https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/18/russia-sandworm-fancy-bear-china-winrar-zero-day/?guccounter=1
Two online services with server costs vs offline decompression software
Please stop making me defend the corporations I beg
Whenever I come across a .rar I think, what are the life decisions that led to someone to package this way?
Would you prefer an *.LZW?
I’d rather a tarball because it’s fun to say
I wonder how memes about WinRAR still get made. Besides everyone mentioning 7zip is better in every thread, windows explorer has been able to unzip things for ages now. Who is still using WinRAR?
Has it? I thought that was only added in a recent update?
Not that I'd know, I stopped using windows almost 2 years ago
it can unrar and unzip and even untar.gz.xz.thc now
Yeah I know that much, I was questioning the "for ages" part
Oh. It's been able to since the last windows 11 update I believe soo maybe a month or two?
Winrar in 2023 is wild
Anyone remembers PeaZip?
What's WinRAR?
it's what people use who haven't heard of PeaZip or 7Zip.
At this point using winrar tells me the person is kinda old and out of touch with tech.
It's a compression and decompression program. If you've ever heard of the ZIP file format, then this program basically opens and creates ZIP files (and other files in similar formats, such as RAR).
time to download a crack for winrar on kazaa
I got mine off limewire, and it came with a free zip file to test it out.
Considerate of them to make it 65kb to not take up too much space.
I'd pay for WinRAR before I gave either of those companies my money.
Same with sublime text. "We'll only bug you every 50 saves about buying a license."
I can live with that.
And Emby media server. "Once in a while we'll have a 10 second delay to start the movie."
Sublime has a paid version ?
I didn’t know it had a free version
Maybe only on Linux? I actually would buy one because I love the product so much and I want to support the developers. But $99 is a bit steep.
But why would you.
Ha, funny thing, I bought it yesterday.
Why? 7zip is just better. Also .7z is the superior compression algorithm
Pleeease just use zip. Different compression algorithms just lead to headaches and honestly who cares which is better, use the standard. Everyone can open zip files. Don't send your stuff as a .rar, .7z or .tar.gz.
I'm too lazy to check, so how much is it? Is it a one-time purchase or a subscription?
Onetime for around 30 bucks. Yeah, 7zip is free and I used that but I had to repair a corrupted rar archive. It worked and I was thankful for that so I bought it.