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With great self-awareness WinRAR releases official $150 merch: 'What better way to support the software you’ve NEVER paid for than by buying a WinRAR bag?' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's fascinating to me that people prefer shitty nagware over 7-zip only because they think they're "getting one over" by not paying for inferior software and/or feel nostalgic for it.

[–] admin 3 points 1 week ago

I feel nostalgic for WinRAR and I don't need or want the fucking bag. Fucking.rar was the first file extension I remember learning at like 6yo that wasn't something dumb like .txt .jpg .doc .ppt .exe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I bought it because 7-zip was shit back then so yeah ill stick with WinRar

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I hate having to find my key when I get a new computer. I know there are alternatives but I paid for it, I want it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Back when?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

For a good while, the UI in 7-Zip was so atrocious merely extracting an existing archive was not obvious. It definitely improved over that.

I'd argue that even today, WinRAR UI is more intuitive than 7-Zip, but it is largely irrelevant since both have decent integration with windows file explorer anyway, which was also something 7-Zip lacked for a while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Probably 10-15 years ago or something