Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library

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Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library
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Still gonna use 7zip, the default Windows packing/unpacking interface is atrocious.

Honestly though if they just added "extract to {archivename}\" as a right click option it would cover more than 90% of my usage.

Literally the reason why 7 zip is the first thing I install on a windows machine.

All the linux file managers I use have that context menu built in, so nothing else to install 😅 except that I also sometimes use 7zip file manager via WINE because I like a GUI

Have you used Windows recently? This option currently exists as a right-click option in Windows 11.

I only see the "Extract All..." option which has been there for years and isn't what I want. If it just proceeded with the extraction and didn't pop up a window asking where to put it then we'd be in business, but as currently implemented it's an additional interaction to do the same thing.

Which is an incredible effort, very few software have an interface more atrocious than 7zip.

The UI is the main reason I actually paid for a WinRAR license.

I don't use the interface, that's the thing. I just use the contextual menu - which is more than enough to operate it easily. If the windows version of it had the same, then I wouldn't mind at all.