Well now I'm definitely not buying it.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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does it still let you infinitely have a free trial??
Just blow the dust off that copy of serials2k 🤣
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"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.
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.
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.
For me it’s laziness.
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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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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
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!
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Welp. Good thing I never bought it haha.
Zstd go brrr
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