And I went on their page to subscribe for a lifetime membership, and they wanted 20 bucks, which I was okay with, but it does not include Major Updates! I guess I’ll buy it and just click the do not check for updates button but that seemed kind of, I don’t know.
I still think they’re pretty cool for not hassling you more than they do.
Am I wrong that this bothered me?
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There’s also Peazip, which handles more formats. I believe both are open source projects.
Also, the GUI frontend on Peazip is far more pleasing to the eye.
True, but it doesn’t have drag-n-drop
Will check this out later
Switched several years ago. Much better.
Why support closed source software that hassles you when 7-zip is open source and works great?
Familiarity, and a case of unzipper’s guilt
Ark is awesome, though it seems it’s not available on Windows.
If op uses WinRar, they probaly have never considered Linux
Can you not run WinRar on the proton subsystem?
I’ll say what I say to everyone about this, WinRAR is awful. If you need a program for this, user 7Zip or Peazip. Personally, I’m 7Zip for life. 👍
Idk why users even think about buying and using winrar out of pure habit and because “I have used it since 2012”…
I wozud gladly pay 40€ instead to the 7zip maintainer. He is doing gods work with 7zip and the filemanager has way too much good features. Same for notepad++
I understand wanting to pay for the years you’ve already used it, but is there really any reason to use RAR over 7zip since 7zip will uncompress RAR & seems, from personal use, to have better compression for most filetypes.
I’ve heard the dev for 7zip is a bit of an ass if you need something fixed or feature requests, but otherwise not really (unless you’re using it for work and your workplace prohibits russian-made software)
7Zip is open-source and can be audited which is something people do from time to time (e.g. there was an encryption issue that was fixed a few years ago). No real reason to fear it simply because the author is Russian.
I wholeheartedly agree! Government (and government contractors) may have no say in the matter though, and if your boss says no, well, “no” is a complete sentence.
Donate to 7z
That’s just how software licensing work before subscription, right? You’ll get a permanent license key that valid for that version, then if you want to upgrade to the latest version later down the line, you’ll buy a license upgrade (usually at discount).
Yeah this is pretty standard for software licensing. Free upgrades indefinitely is an unsustainable business model.
Thanks for being the only person in this thread to actually respond to the question instead of blabbering about different software.
I would just donate that money to 7zip or PeaZip creators that would benefit everybody.
WinRar works good with .rar files because they created them just to sell buissness licences for something that can be as easly done with tar and gzip.Or xz ;D
neat
Correct me if im wrong, but I think I read/watched something a few years ago which basically explains why winrar has a free trial but never actually enforces it. It had something to do with copyright law details, and how making it a paid product extends the copyright protections on it so that corporations cant legally use the code for a longer time. Im not sure if I’m even remembering it correctly, because it was several years ago
You have given them a donation for using their software like forever. All fine, no ?
The open source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeaZip can do rar it seems.
I bought a winrar license to a friend of mine as a Christmas gift not long ago.
my friend, let me enlighten you to the ways of 7zip.
Not that I am supporting the transition to Windows 11, but apparently RAR support is built into 11 now, along with Zip functionality (it might just be in 11 Pro, tho, not sure).
The windows zip functionality tends to mess up the zip files*, so I would be wary of the way it handles rar files.
* Example: xlsx files are zip files, so if you change the extension to zip, you can edit the contents of the file and then change it back. If you do this with the windows zip functionality, the Excel file will be broken. With 7-zip not so.
While the Windows implementation works, it’s not the best one. Even WinRar will compress and uncompress faster, and 7Zip also beats WinRar. The compression ratios are also higher on 7Z, regardless of the file format (Rar, Zip, 7z).
Besides, 7Z can open other (arguably better) formats, like the aforementioned 7z or tar (tar, tar.gz, tar.7z, tar.zst, …)
I prefer IZArc
