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196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

2y ago

WinRar rule

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Yeah but 7zip tho.
- 7zip 4lyfe
- The fastest installing software in the world
  
  You know they have full trust in their project when their own installer is using 7zip to install 7zip.
- I heard there's a better one
  
  8zip?
- Peazip imho
7zip better tho
- Better, faster, doesn't ask for money, installs in a moment.
- On Windows you should use Nanazip
  winget install -e --id M2Team.NanaZip
  
  What are the benefits over 7zip?
- Or Peazip.
Uhm? No.
Russia and China-backed hackers are exploiting WinRAR zero-day bug https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/18/russia-sandworm-fancy-bear-china-winrar-zero-day/?guccounter=1
- Or better, uninstall
- As long as I don’t have to pay
  
  That's the spirit! :)
Two online services with server costs vs offline decompression software
Please stop making me defend the corporations I beg
I paid for WinRAR 15 years ago because I'm not a freeloader.
Whenever I come across a .rar I think, what are the life decisions that led to someone to package this way?
- Would you prefer an *.LZW?
  
  I’d rather a tarball because it’s fun to say
I wonder how memes about WinRAR still get made. Besides everyone mentioning 7zip is better in every thread, windows explorer has been able to unzip things for ages now. Who is still using WinRAR?
- it can unrar and unzip and even untar.gz.xz.thc now
Anyone remembers PeaZip?
- I still rock it
  
  The moment I left Windows I left it behind but it was/is a very nice program.
Winrar in 2023 is wild
What's WinRAR?
- it's what people use who haven't heard of PeaZip or 7Zip.
  
  At this point using winrar tells me the person is kinda old and out of touch with tech.
- It's a compression and decompression program. If you've ever heard of the ZIP file format, then this program basically opens and creates ZIP files (and other files in similar formats, such as RAR).
time to download a crack for winrar on kazaa
- I got mine off limewire, and it came with a free zip file to test it out.
  Considerate of them to make it 65kb to not take up too much space.
I'd pay for WinRAR before I gave either of those companies my money.
Same with sublime text. "We'll only bug you every 50 saves about buying a license."
I can live with that.
And Emby media server. "Once in a while we'll have a 10 second delay to start the movie."
- Sublime has a paid version ?
  
  I didn’t know it had a free version
  
  Maybe only on Linux? I actually would buy one because I love the product so much and I want to support the developers. But $99 is a bit steep.
But why would you.
Ha, funny thing, I bought it yesterday.
- Why? 7zip is just better. Also .7z is the superior compression algorithm
  
  Pleeease just use zip. Different compression algorithms just lead to headaches and honestly who cares which is better, use the standard. Everyone can open zip files. Don't send your stuff as a .rar, .7z or .tar.gz.
- I'm too lazy to check, so how much is it? Is it a one-time purchase or a subscription?
  
  Onetime for around 30 bucks. Yeah, 7zip is free and I used that but I had to repair a corrupted rar archive. It worked and I was thankful for that so I bought it.
- Better check for your version since <6 got got compromised

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