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[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 242 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well now I'm definitely not buying it.

[–] sock@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

does it still let you infinitely have a free trial??

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Just blow the dust off that copy of serials2k 🤣

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[–] wAkawAka@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Embrace ~~tar.gz~~ 7zip, son!"

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is there rarely a mention of 7zip?

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 17 points 1 year ago

I feel like I’ve seen it mentioned like 50 times in the past two weeks here on Lemmy.

[–] echedeylr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

PeaZip I would suggest better.

[–] NothingSpecial@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago

Just use 7-Zip

[–] Wats0ns@sh.itjust.works 66 points 1 year ago

Well at least someone's gonna make money from WinRAR users

[–] 790@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Interesting. About a month ago I joined the elite club of WinRAR licence owners.

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 year ago

These hackers must be targeting you, then.

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 6 points 1 year ago

One of three

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Mine is a few years older.

[–] Octopus1348@thelemmy.club 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, good that Windows now has native RAR support.

[–] brsrklf@compuverse.uk 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

*Only for opening rar files. Not creating them.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

the only reason anyone still uses this shit is ignorance

[–] HeneryHawk@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] justastranger@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

WinRAR also lets you delete files from a RAR archive, 7zip does not.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] nicolairathjen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

For me it’s laziness.

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[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] zewm@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] w00t@lemy.lol 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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!

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I'm still using sweet FAR Manager, absolute baller of a software.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Still use it out of habit!

[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] FarLine99@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

PeaZip is GOAT software. Truly amazing.

[–] Supercharger@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How does it compare to 7-Zip?

[–] echedeylr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are basically a vitamined frontend + custom backend for 7zip-zstd supporting several other formats such as lzip.

[–] Supercharger@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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!

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[–] CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Welp. Good thing I never bought it haha.

[–] ryannathans@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Zstd go brrr

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