WinRar rule

sag@lemm.ee to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 580 points –
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Yeah but 7zip tho.

The fastest installing software in the world

You know they have full trust in their project when their own installer is using 7zip to install 7zip.

7zip better tho

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!

Two online services with server costs vs offline decompression software

Please stop making me defend the corporations I beg

I paid for WinRAR 15 years ago because I'm not a freeloader.

7zip superiority

How come ? Im not a comp nerd

Smaller and faster program that's completely free instead of free-ish. Their .7z format is also better than the .rar format, compressing files even smaller. It also works with .rar files, as a bonus.

Whenever I come across a .rar I think, what are the life decisions that led to someone to package this way?

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?

Anyone remembers PeaZip?

I still rock it

The moment I left Windows I left it behind but it was/is a very nice program.

I've searched for it and it's free and open source, you can always compile from source https://peazip.github.io/

Debian delivers a very good compressed file support as is. I'm good.

But I still recommend it for those friends/acquaintances that still use Windows. It is so user friendly.

you can get peazip on linux

I run Debian, which already has native compressed files support, but I recommend Peazip to every person I know still running Windows

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 ?

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.