Well now I’m definitely not buying it.
does it still let you infinitely have a free trial??
Just blow the dust off that copy of serials2k 🤣
You deserve the updoot sir
“Embrace
tar.gz7zip, son!”Why is there rarely a mention of 7zip?
I feel like I’ve seen it mentioned like 50 times in the past two weeks here on Lemmy.
PeaZip I would suggest better.
Just use 7-Zip
Well at least someone’s gonna make money from WinRAR users
Interesting. About a month ago I joined the elite club of WinRAR licence owners.
These hackers must be targeting you, then.
One of three
Mine is a few years older.
Well, good that Windows now has native RAR support.
Somehow Windows has always been and is still crap at managing archives. Ultra-slow, has trouble opening or extracting individual files inside the archive, etc.
However, 7-zip has been doing all that perfectly forever now. Not sure why anyone would use WinRAR, paid for or not.
Yeah maybe isn’t great but I admit that be able to use the open file window from a program and select a file inside a compressed file is nice.
WinRAR is an internet institution at this point. It’s like Amtrak, why would anyone ride the train when there are better cheaper and faster modes of transport? Don’t know but people do anyway
What? Amtrak is great for specific use cases. For intrastate travel in the US, Amtrak often is the fastest, cheapest, most comfortable experience.
Oddly, going two states over, it’s often the slowest and most expensive, but for mid haul distance, Amtrak is fantastic.
That’s kind of my point that WinRAR has its limited use cases like Amtrak does although majority of the time it’s more efficient to use something else
*Only for opening rar files. Not creating them.
the only reason anyone still uses this shit is ignorance
On a very very rare occasion I’ve had to use it for scene cracks as other apps didn’t work. They use WinRAR to archive it so on those very rare occasions it’s the only thing that unpacks it
WinRAR also lets you delete files from a RAR archive, 7zip does not.
For me it’s laziness.
I bought a lifetime license literally more than 20 years ago to support the developer. I use 7Zip for most stuff but prefer WinRAR for split rar archive support.
That’s, quite ironically, a pretty ignorant opinion. There are areas where WinRAR is stronger than 7zip.
The person you replied to never mentioned 7-Zip, and there’s forks and other programs that are probably just as strong in the same areas.
“probably”
The commenter implied that there’s a tool which is better than WinRAR in everything and therefore there can’t possibly be a reason to use WinRAR. Which application is it then?
I’d need to know the areas you consider 7-Zip to be stronger in first, because I can’t think of anything myself.
As an example, RAR provides parity records which allows recovery of large amounts of compressed data in case of data corruption. 7zip can lose all its content if one bit is flipped.
RAR provides much more support for underlying file system support which makes it more suitable as an archival tool. Things like NTFS hard links, streams, ACLs, all three timestamps. 7zip doesn’t support that.
WinRAR in general has way more niche features for advanced use cases, while 7zip focuses on the basics.
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However, from a practical perspective, deceiving users into performing the required action shouldn’t be overly challenging, and given the vast size of WinRAR’s user base
Excuse me, but “vast” size of WinRAR’s user base? I didn’t know WinRAR even had any users left.
There is that one last user
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Well, even FAR manager which they’ve open-souced long time ago is still maintained 😀 Good thing they didn’t discover this bug in 2000s!
That looks quite interesting, seems like they’ve even got quite an extensive list of plugins - looks like may be even better than Midnight Commander. :o
I’m still using sweet FAR Manager, absolute baller of a software.
Still use it out of habit!
It’s what we get for not buying it XD
It’s been like at least 5 years since I’ve seen a rar file.
PeaZip is GOAT software. Truly amazing.
How does it compare to 7-Zip?
They are basically a vitamined frontend + custom backend for 7zip-zstd supporting several other formats such as lzip.
Thanks! I’ve been happy with 7-Zip for Windows, but what you’re describing sound like an upgrade with few downsides, if any. I’ll try it next time I get the chance!
Another pro is that PeaZip is multi platform and could be used in MacOS and GNU/Linux.
7-Zip is multi platform too
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That version is not official. Was a rework made by an external user.
I remember the main author was trying to rework their custom version but yes, no GUI.
Removed by mod
It support zip, rar, 7z. Basically all archive formats. It has way better UI. It is open source. It is free in beer.
It is open source. It is free in beer.
It is free as in speech. Your phrase refers to proprietary yet no cost software.
Free as in freedom is not a big argument for most people. But as in beer 😏
This!
I used winrar at first, but never truly trusted 7zip. Didn’t like the way it looked. Then first time I learned about ninite, I saw peazip and never looked back.
With the soon to be supported .rar on windows 11 I might do away with it but I feel peazip works faster.
The built in zip support in windows is super slow. I wonder if they will improve it when rar support comes.
Use PeaZip
Welp. Good thing I never bought it haha.
Zstd go brrr
using WinRAR
And that’s how I know that voting should be a privilege, not a right.
You’re so dramatic
Truth is dramatic.
Prolific man, so true
