Really? I thought most people moved to 7-Zip.
I keep it around and run it in Wine under Linux because I’ve encountered RAR files that other archivers can’t open every so often.
I have never had a rar archive that 7zip can’t open
I have, I guess they may have been malformed or corrupted or something, but WinRAR didn’t care.
Rar for Linux is something that exists, is free of charge, has no trial pop-up, and is basically the same thing that one runs for you. Also, 7-Zip can run it for you if you want to use a GUI.
But you need to install it.
7-Zip is a stupid name and I refuse to use it even if it’s better than WinRAR. Not like I ever open the interfaces anymore. I just right click and “extract here” so I don’t even know what to compare.
One is open source and doesn’t steal your data. The other may or may not, who knows?
Kind of a weird thing to dislike a piece of software just because of its name and not its functionality.
Probably, yeah.
It’s in their best interest not to. It’s difficult to compete for mind share if your file format doesn’t get into people’s hands somehow.
I bought a winrar license for my friend as a 2023 birthday gift.
I bought it for myself.
I never get why people use RAR anymore when tar archives are good now.
When were tar archives not good?
I probably shouldn’t have thrown in the word “now”; what I meant to say is FOSS formats are so good that the existence of RAR is ridiculous.
