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What app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?
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7zip
I haven't used windows in about 15 years on my personal machines but see 7zip referenced everywhere...why is it so popular? Can windows 10/11 or whatever we're on now not compress/extract most things itself or do people prefer it for some reason (nice interface etc)?
I'm always amazed when I'm following a tutorial written for windows and it says "download and install 7zip, then extract the file using 7zip". I just right click the file and extract it...
Windows only recently got support for 7z and RAR. For the several decades before that, it supported neither.
Recently? Feels like it's been more than a decade now...I could be wrong though
You are wrong. Until recently Windows did not natively support 7z or unrar.
Looks like just 2 years ago. My bad!
WinRAR anyone ? 🤭
What do you mean? I paid \s
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