I own a valid WinRAR license!
Me too! Must be 20+ years since I bought it.
I use 7zip.
Ever since i found out that there is a yearly subscription for winrar on android, ive been paying for it.
I dont even use winrar anymore but it gives the same satisfaction as donating to wikipedia, and its just a few bucks so why not
Makes sense. People finally have tons of disposable income to spread around. /S
Or maybe is just that everything else is so ridiculously expensive that WinRAR seems like a good deal now.
I think WinRAR forgot /s
7zip is better anyway I don’t understand why people still use WinRar. Then again I don’t understand why people still use Windows either.
Not everything is a competition. If people want to support WinRAR after the developer maintained it for more than 30 years and helped out millions of people, that’s just fine.
If i fill bottles with tap water and try to sell it to my neighbours then anyone still “supporting” me after 30 years is an idiot.
Bottles, time to bottle, and distribution are worth compensation
I use it on occasion, since it will deflate 100+GB zip files much faster than 7zip will. (7z is single threaded for pkzips)
It’s been more than a decade since I used it to compress anything though. LZMA2 rocks.
How does multithreading improve the performance of an unzip operation? I would think the opposite, given the context switching and (abstracted) low level drive writes.
It’s heavily CPU bound in a normal system today. Extracting (let alone compressing) a 2 GB file will take a noticeable amount of time. Reading the whole thing from an nvme will take roughly 1 second. Random access is no longer a relevant performance impact either.
It is my understanding that multithreaded extraction is hard(er) cause the used dictionary is built up incrementally. So to extract later parts you need to have extracted earlier parts.
Or WinZip. I work for a company that literally has the licenses for every computer they own. Why? 7-zip is free.
I could think of stronger password protection options. Maybe some kind of UI. Maybe a way to certify creators of the zip so they can filter out malicious zips in emails. I dont know what WinZip offers but company compliance is a goldmine.
Yup. The ability or willingness of a software maker to remove or agree to an indemnification clause is sometimes of paramount importance for some organizations.
It’s sank more than a few promising projects at my org.
ITT: The most politically charged discussion of compression software I’ve ever read…
FOSS users when there’s a software that’s free but not open source
I make software that’s almost “open source” with the only limitation being that you can’t resell it. I’ve had FOSS users tell me they’d prefer it being proprietary.
That’s how I know I’m home
What else did you expect from lemmy?
Israel uses 7zip to genocide LGBTQ children in Palestine running Arch btw
RAR files just make me “Huh?” as they are nowhere near as good as 7zip, as universal as zip, or as nice as tarballs.
The memory of multi-part rar files being a good way to get big things voer dial-up is kinda long past, they’re a relic, in my book.
I think theyre still popular on Usenet.
IDK all the history but rar has built in ability to create recovery data / parity volumes.
Parity data is like additional data that can help reconstruct any degradation.
That said, usually a standalone parity generator is used which can work with other types of archives, but rar is what everyone uses so why change.
Compression algos are ineffective on encoded / compressed media anyway.
It used to be important on Usenet, and maybe still is, because if a drive starts to fail somewhere and contains errors those errors can be reproduced across the network. Not sure if thats still a thing or why but certainly 10 years ago it was.
The summary to this rambling comment is: some communities still like rar because its what they’ve always used and there’s no benefit to adopting 7z.
multi-part rar
Why not just use Tar with
splitandcat?Instructions unclear.
My cat is now blacka and cut in half
Shhh you’re a free software
Unlike 7-Zip, which is actually free and also open-source as well
7-Zip is by far the best archiving software on Windows
Didn’t Microsoft get in trouble for trying to steal 7zip code without credit or something?
Snot. You run windows 🤪
I didn’t say I use Windows. I only said that 7-Zip is the best archiving software available for it.
Also, 7-zip is available for Linux too
You can use Wine on Linux to install it…
Well, but I’m used to WinRAR and never had any issues. Only need it once every few months. And it’s pretty fun when the software tries to tell me that it isn’t a free software. What a silly thing to say!
No, it’s proprietary
Free as in free beer, not as in freedom.
Its big companies that screw them the most. I have worked for multiple multi billion dollar corporations that will screw Team Viewer over even though its how we get customers into their down servers. And it wasn’t one data center, its every data center I have ever worked in (30 years in)
If the license is free, they will screw them.
*I know TV hasn’t been around that long, but WinRAR has been and it was another company I saw screwed.
Thats kinda of how the free license works though. Yes loads of people use it without paying but theyre free advertising.
Ah, yes, the bigger the company, the more willing to save something negligible on tools its business depends upon.
Honestly that’s why I wish more of FOSS were hobbyist like AROS, Haiku and such. FOSS projects shouldn’t be too readily usable by businesses, that allows bullshit shops with arrogant pigeon management to keep existing without building proper processes.
I mean, there’s some equilibrium here probably, but with what projects get from businesses bigger than nation-states using their work, - we’re far from it.
At the same time there are things like Java, PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx and so on. I don’t know.
It just seems sometimes that FOSS breaks market mechanisms in favor of big businesses not giving back to the rest of economy, which seems the opposite of its intuitively and emotionally perceived goal.
But maybe archivers are not it. Not a fan of the idea of having a set of 10 different archivers all often needed, like people did in the 90s. OK, I was a baby in the 90s. Many people didn’t have PCs in the 90s.
But can we just go back to weak connectivity (say, asynchronous message exchange of everyone to everyone via BT ; global cryptographic identities and message ids, sort of a global p2p cryptographically contracted Usenet), a zoo of common operating systems and hardware platforms, evolution, competition, geekiness, interesting things.
I must be the only one who ever paid for it.
izarc+cli
They make their real money from other businesses, still funny tho.
Before you go thinking “ah! That’s funny, I might chime in and give them some of my money too!” - remember that WinRAR is develop by a Russian person, can’t find their stance on the Ukrainian invasion but just something to think about.
Isn’t that like saying all Americans are evil because our president is a piece of trash?
Well, yes, thanks for the reminder!
Ey guys, before you go buying or using some USA software, make sure they don’t support or have ties with the Trump administration!
Fun fact, the US was already a warmongering shit stain long long before trump.
Fun fact, so was every other nation in the world that ever fancied itself important enough to compete with others. America is just the latest bully to come out on top.
Well yeah, since its conception. Idk how much my perception of when Europeans became “Americans” is synonymous with historians, but… After the Europeans vastly destroyed the American population and took the name for themselves, Americans used violence to secede from English command. Iirc it was started by a plainclothes soldier shooting a soldier, starting a massacre.
I have been boycotting american products since they voted a pedo in office.
You ae not alone.
The majority of you voted for him, so it’s fair to assume a majority of you are like him, yes.
*the majority of old idiots voted for him
Regardless of your actual politics, we’re still funding MAGA shit because we’re too poor to dodge our taxes. So I fully support people boycotting American businesses, same as with any business based in other countries doing evil shit.
I know i’m fully nitpicking in bad faith here, but which are the countries not doing evil shit ? There probably are a few that are mostly good, but even those are quite rare, aren’t they ?
shrugs The various Pacific island nations probably don’t have any fuckery going on, even if only because they lack the ability. Or if they do, they’re too small to be obvious about it, which I’ll admit is probably as good as it gets.
No. you made a jump from not knowing a stance of a single person to attributing evil to an entire nation.
Because need to know the stance of a single person implies attributing evil to his whole nation.
Going to start boycotting American companies too, seeing as the USA and its people has always, are, and will always be the worst group of people on earth.
USA is awful but France still exists…
It is important to think about and keep in mind, but it’s also important not to judge blindly. Do some research before you make a decision on something like this and try to make an informed decision. People aren’t responsible for where they’re born, and not everyone is in a position for fight or flight. Most Russians are victims of Putin too, some worse than others. Many of them may be ignorant, yes, and even deeply unpleasant and unlikable people with nasty attitudes, but they are also brainwashed by one of the most manipulative and subtly oppressive regimes that has possibly ever existed in the modern world. Organizing a resistance against tyranny isn’t easy. Even finding the motivation to resist it isn’t easy. If it was easy, we wouldn’t have such problems with tyrants all around the world, and orangeman wouldn’t have lasted a week.
If you don’t want to send money that will end up in Russia, I don’t blame you. If you are afraid of the infiltration and malware risks that come with using software made in Russia, I don’t blame you for that either. But the guy himself is probably just a normal person, unless there’s specific evidence otherwise. “Othering” and demonizing other people is the path to the dark side. You can hate the country and government and the system, and you should, but not the people born and raised within it. They’re in a big fucking mess, and you would be too if you lived there. Just because you think you’d make different choices personally, doesn’t mean they’re making bad ones for the situation they’re in.
We are all just people. We are not better or worse than any other people. We are all trying to do the same things in life. Even the Russian people. But we’ve been made to be different by our environments and nations and governments that benefit from us being divided and hating each other. Don’t play their game.
Aw, sweet WinRAR.
