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[–] [email protected] 166 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fastest installing software in the world

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

You know they have full trust in their project when their own installer is using 7zip to install 7zip.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I heard there's a better one

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The squeakuel

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[–] blacknails 3 points 1 year ago

Peazip imho

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Better, faster, doesn't ask for money, installs in a moment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

On Windows you should use Nanazip

winget install -e --id M2Team.NanaZip

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are the benefits over 7zip?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Works in the context menu

You can see the full list of their features under features

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

Windows 11 context menu is ugly so I switched it back to the old style one and have all the 7zip context menu items I need. But this is good if you don't want to do that. Might try it out at a later date!

[–] snugglesthefalse 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah I also have context menu 7zip in win 11

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As long as I don’t have to pay

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

That's the spirit! :)

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Two online services with server costs vs offline decompression software

Please stop making me defend the corporations I beg

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I paid for WinRAR 15 years ago because I'm not a freeloader.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ark superiority.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fuck that, imma freeload all I want.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"I'm a bootlicker and proud" - this guy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's two guys asshole 🤣

🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whenever I come across a .rar I think, what are the life decisions that led to someone to package this way?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Would you prefer an *.LZW?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I’d rather a tarball because it’s fun to say

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The moment I left Windows I left it behind but it was/is a very nice program.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've searched for it and it's free and open source, you can always compile from source https://peazip.github.io/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Debian delivers a very good compressed file support as is. I'm good.

But I still recommend it for those friends/acquaintances that still use Windows. It is so user friendly.

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[–] eray 11 points 1 year ago

Winrar in 2023 is wild

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's what people use who haven't heard of PeaZip or 7Zip.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

At this point using winrar tells me the person is kinda old and out of touch with tech.

[–] can 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'd pay for WinRAR before I gave either of those companies my money.

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

time to download a crack for winrar on kazaa

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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."

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