"Embrace ~~tar.gz~~ 7zip, 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.
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[Sigh]... *7zip*
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PeaZip I would suggest better.
Well at least someone's gonna make money from WinRAR users
Just use 7-Zip
if you’re on Windows use NanaZip. 7Zip refuses to use modern compression and encryption algorithms or integrate with the new Windows APIs. NanaZip is a fork that does just that.
Windows?! What?!
7-zip doesn’t exist on Linux. p7zip does, which hasn’t been updated since 2016
EDIT: It does, I stand corrected
Thanks, will check this out!
Of course! 7-zip is absolutely a software cornerstone, but as in all things open source it’s now better as it’s forked version with more active community efforts taking place
Such is the power of open source.
So say we all
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.
Even 7Zip now though is insecure and outdated. Use NanaZip if you’re on windows, it's a fork that is more secure and uses modern compression/encryption algorithms in addition to integrating better with current Windows APIs
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.
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.
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.
9 out of 10 people I know use WinRAR. It's amongst the very firsr software they install at fresh start.
I myself also just changed to 7-Zip around... I don't know, a year ago?
Which part of the world is this, if you don't mind me asking? (just genuinely curious, cause I haven't come across any WinRARs in the wild here in NZ, most folks I know use either 7-Zip or PeaZip).
I'm from Europe, in the embrace of the Carpathian Mountains :)
before WinRAR, people used WinZIP here in the '00s (at least Windows folks). Again, a strange choice, I know.
Am in the US and used winrar for a long time as it was integrated into Usenet binaries as rar files. It was embedded with some other software.
WinRAR was what I used in the 2000s. Around 2011, 7-zip was my goto. I haven't looked back since.
I wasn't aware of pea-zip until this thread
There is that one last user
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/lX_pF03vCSU
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
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
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.
Welp. Good thing I never bought it haha.
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