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[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 265 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Blows my mind that anyone still uses WinRAR when 7zip exists.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 79 points 1 year ago (7 children)

What should blow your mind is that it's 2023 and you still need a separate program to extract compressed files on windows. πŸ˜‚ Good thing they're adding native support for it in windows 11. FINALLY.

[–] wmassingham@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
[–] 1bluepixel@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] PeachMan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same for Macs. They technically support zipping and unzipping, they're just bad at it. It's so stupid.

[–] WoodenBleachers@lemmy.basedcount.com 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How so? I’ve always found finder did a good job.

[–] PeachMan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a maximum file size, I forget what it is. And it also can't handle zips in multiple pieces.

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[–] lightnegative@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Finder is an abortion, there is not a single thing it does well

[–] Kazumara@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

An abortion you can't even get rid of! Its icon is stuck the dock forever, even if you use something better like Forklift. The whole mac GUI is just shit.

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[–] duke@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't recall anyone having Plus! back then.

[–] wmassingham@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I think we did.

But it was added to base Windows in XP anyway.

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[–] raptir@lemdro.id 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You do on Linux as well, it's just installed by default.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

For my personal use, Linux has every single thing I need right out of the box. That's why it's my main OS.

[–] beatle@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your chosen GNU/Linux distribution installs the applications.

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[–] DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Microsoft and apple are the reasons boomers have learned helplessness with tech. It helped them sell units in the 90's to imply you didn't have to ever consider anything under the hood because it all is supposed to just work like magic. you just hit the switch and let electricity do it's thing.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's not an inherently bad thing though, same as it's not inherently bad that not everyone can repair their car, or sew up tears in their trousers.

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[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

And often, you need two! I use both gzip and tar all the time

[–] Fades@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same with Mac OS, it’s such a fucking no brainer and it’s not hard to impl

[–] pascal@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

they’re adding native support for it in windows 11

What could possibly go wrong.

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Windows' built in unzipping tool has really messed up my system before by uncompressing files wrong in subtle ways. I'll always prefer to use a program made by a third party whose livelihood depends on the quality of their software over some value-add baked in junk.

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[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

WinRAR was good in ancient times when it was the only zip program available. Even in the Windows XP era there were better things to use if you knew about them. I doubt 7zip was really that usable in the early 2000s but it eventually got good and nowadays 7zip is so good that of you aren't using it, you're doing it wrong.

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[–] ARk@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well it would blow your mind to know that many people just use whatever they know that does the job

[–] Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

There is a certain sense of old friend that you know by heart, I've downloaded so much things where the last step was to pass it by WinRAR, but yeah I should change when there are proofs like that

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (9 children)

FUCK WINRAR!

it's so stupid and amazing this recent celebration of people that are proud to have paid for it.

It was never a good solution really..

It just worked for what it was for a time... Because it was better than WinZip or pkzip.

7-zip has been amazing for years..

Better OS support would be cool too but it's so unnecessary thanks to 7zip.

[–] pascal@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FUCK WINRAR!

People on Lemmy sometimes get really angry at the dumbest things.

You don't like Winrar, that's your right, chill dude.

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[–] InvaderDJ@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (9 children)

WinRAR was great for the time and their policies on paying for the program were extremely generous. Time just overtook it.

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[–] aksdb@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

7z recently also had an exploit. It's not magically safer.

RAR compresses significantly faster than 7z (in relation to the compression ratio of course).

RAR has recovery records, 7z doesn't. RAR4 even had cryptographic signatures included. But RAR5 dropped that.

7z is nice, but it's not objectively better than RAR on every account.

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[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] devz0r@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just feel like that people who are still opening RAR files are technically savvy enough to have moved on from WinRAR

Edit: and the people who would still use it aren’t really opening archives anymore so I don’t know who this is affecting. Maybe they have corporate contracts.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not hate but we graduate to 7zip.

Isnt the FOSS thingie all the hype around lemmy? Feel like every discussion tends to drift towards FOSS topics (ironic, I know) and if an app with proprietary modules will be hated to hell and back.

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Gekoloniseerd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You really don’t have to share a Reddit. Just make a ss and we will understand.

[–] Isthisreddit@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

WinRAR had a great gui and it integrates much better (imho) into windows than 7zip, only thing 7zip has going for it is it's free.

If we are talking command line, rar is free (inb4 Unix guys butt in)

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

The only thing I missed switching to 7zip was the UX. 7zip is a bit weird at first, but then you find out that it will extract lots of installers. So now you can just get the wifi driver and not the bloatware that comes along with it, and it's all good.

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

7zip integrates very nicely into Explorer (so you can right click a file or folder and compress straight from there). I admit the main GUI of 7zip looks ancient but I never needed it.

[–] gothicdecadence@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

If you're on Windows (I know I know, switch to Linux) I prefer NanaZip over base 7zip

https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip

[–] JewGoblin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

doesn't WinRAR do certain things that 7zip doesn't?

I can't think of what 7zip lacks, but I know it does lack some features

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The reason WinRAR was useful to me allllllll those years ago was for one thing and one thing only: You could split an archive into chunks. So mostly I found that it was good for getting my warez in 1.44MB chunks.

Anon: hey Krudler, do you have a cracked copy of GTA3

Krudler: say no more, friend

Sends 350 floppy disks with the cracked game

[–] PoliteGhost@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. That splitting files was especially useful because emails used to have attachment size limits.

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[–] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 6 points 1 year ago

Afaik, the only thing 7Zip lacks in comparison to WinRAR is the ability to create rar files, and that's only because the format is proprietary.

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[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why not? I prefer it over 7-Zip because it has built-in parity both in the archive itself and as separate files. You can achieve the latter with 7-Zip using PAR, but it's just more convenient to have it built-in for both parity creation and recovery.

I also feel like it's consuming a lot less RAM while compressing at similar speeds and achieving similar, if not sometimes better (RAR5), results.

Just because it had a zero-day bug that has already been fixed doesn't mean it's bad software. I wouldn't be surprised if zero-days came to light in other archival software. 7-Zip isn't magically immune to this.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't get why someone would prefer rar over zip and 7z.
Even tar.gz and all their flavors are more common.

[–] pascal@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, well technically .cab is more common than tar.gz but that doesn't mean I'd start using it.

I personally use RAR because I think it's a better format than ZIP, but I use ZIP when I have to share the archive with anyone.

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[–] original_reader@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

There's the occasional RAR archive 7-Zip doesn't open for me, but WinRAR does. 🀷🏻