7zip is better anyway I don't understand why people still use WinRar. Then again I don't understand why people still use Windows either.
Not everything is a competition. If people want to support WinRAR after the developer maintained it for more than 30 years and helped out millions of people, that's just fine.
If i fill bottles with tap water and try to sell it to my neighbours then anyone still "supporting" me after 30 years is an idiot.
This is not only a stupid comparison but you've missed the point entirely.
Or WinZip. I work for a company that literally has the licenses for every computer they own. Why? 7-zip is free.
I could think of stronger password protection options. Maybe some kind of UI. Maybe a way to certify creators of the zip so they can filter out malicious zips in emails. I dont know what WinZip offers but company compliance is a goldmine.
I use it on occasion, since it will deflate 100+GB zip files much faster than 7zip will. (7z is single threaded for pkzips)
It's been more than a decade since I used it to compress anything though. LZMA2 rocks.
I'm glad you can have a Windows-free existence.
Some things just don't function well on Linux, but there are lots of us who are 99% Linux and don't use Windows unless we have to.
ITT: The most politically charged discussion of compression software I've ever read...
That's how I know I'm home
FOSS users when there's a software that's free but not open source
I make software that’s almost “open source” with the only limitation being that you can’t resell it. I’ve had FOSS users tell me they’d prefer it being proprietary.
Surely thats just a couple of weirdos on the extreme side. Did that happen on multiple occasions?
anyone who still distributes anything compressed with winrar, please just fucking stop
use it for your personal archival purposes if you must, but please just fucking stop using it to share or distribute anything publicly. there's zero reason to use .rar over 7z or zip or tgz or any other open standard
Does it matter when 7zip handles rar anyways?
I own a valid WinRAR license!
Same. I've happily used it for over 2 decades and decided that they actually deserve some money for that. I've since switched to Linux, but don't regret paying for WinRAR at all.
You can still use it. WinRAR works on Linux with WINE
Oh God why though
Ever since i found out that there is a yearly subscription for winrar on android, ive been paying for it.
I dont even use winrar anymore but it gives the same satisfaction as donating to wikipedia, and its just a few bucks so why not
Shhh you're a free software
Unlike 7-Zip, which is actually free and also open-source as well
7-Zip is by far the best archiving software on Windows
Well, but I'm used to WinRAR and never had any issues. Only need it once every few months. And it's pretty fun when the software tries to tell me that it isn't a free software. What a silly thing to say!
Pay for independently-developed software if you care about it continuing to exist. Steal from corporations all you want. But support independent devs (and small teams) to make sure they can keep maintaining the tools you love and rely on. It's the only way to not get swallowed by the big dogs.
RAR files just make me "Huh?" as they are nowhere near as good as 7zip, as universal as zip, or as nice as tarballs.
The memory of multi-part rar files being a good way to get big things voer dial-up is kinda long past, they're a relic, in my book.
I think theyre still popular on Usenet.
IDK all the history but rar has built in ability to create recovery data / parity volumes.
Parity data is like additional data that can help reconstruct any degradation.
That said, usually a standalone parity generator is used which can work with other types of archives, but rar is what everyone uses so why change.
Compression algos are ineffective on encoded / compressed media anyway.
It used to be important on Usenet, and maybe still is, because if a drive starts to fail somewhere and contains errors those errors can be reproduced across the network. Not sure if thats still a thing or why but certainly 10 years ago it was.
The summary to this rambling comment is: some communities still like rar because its what they've always used and there's no benefit to adopting 7z.
I've never used WinRAR. I'm a 7-zip ~~fanatic~~ user.
Its big companies that screw them the most. I have worked for multiple multi billion dollar corporations that will screw Team Viewer over even though its how we get customers into their down servers. And it wasn't one data center, its every data center I have ever worked in (30 years in)
If the license is free, they will screw them.
*I know TV hasn't been around that long, but WinRAR has been and it was another company I saw screwed.
Makes sense. People finally have tons of disposable income to spread around. /S
Or maybe is just that everything else is so ridiculously expensive that WinRAR seems like a good deal now.
Before you go thinking “ah! That’s funny, I might chime in and give them some of my money too!” - remember that WinRAR is develop by a Russian person, can’t find their stance on the Ukrainian invasion but just something to think about.
Isn't that like saying all Americans are evil because our president is a piece of trash?
Well, yes, thanks for the reminder!
Ey guys, before you go buying or using some USA software, make sure they don’t support or have ties with the Trump administration!
I have been boycotting american products since they voted a pedo in office.
Regardless of your actual politics, we're still funding MAGA shit because we're too poor to dodge our taxes. So I fully support people boycotting American businesses, same as with any business based in other countries doing evil shit.
It is important to think about and keep in mind, but it's also important not to judge blindly. Do some research before you make a decision on something like this and try to make an informed decision. People aren't responsible for where they're born, and not everyone is in a position for fight or flight. Most Russians are victims of Putin too, some worse than others. Many of them may be ignorant, yes, and even deeply unpleasant and unlikable people with nasty attitudes, but they are also brainwashed by one of the most manipulative and subtly oppressive regimes that has possibly ever existed in the modern world. Organizing a resistance against tyranny isn't easy. Even finding the motivation to resist it isn't easy. If it was easy, we wouldn't have such problems with tyrants all around the world, and orangeman wouldn't have lasted a week.
If you don't want to send money that will end up in Russia, I don't blame you. If you are afraid of the infiltration and malware risks that come with using software made in Russia, I don't blame you for that either. But the guy himself is probably just a normal person, unless there's specific evidence otherwise. "Othering" and demonizing other people is the path to the dark side. You can hate the country and government and the system, and you should, but not the people born and raised within it. They're in a big fucking mess, and you would be too if you lived there. Just because you think you'd make different choices personally, doesn't mean they're making bad ones for the situation they're in.
We are all just people. We are not better or worse than any other people. We are all trying to do the same things in life. Even the Russian people. But we've been made to be different by our environments and nations and governments that benefit from us being divided and hating each other. Don't play their game.
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