WinRAR releases new update and says it’s thanks to people finally paying - Dexerto
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WinRAR announced the release of version 7.23 on X, thanking customers with a tongue in cheek message about actually getting payments.
  • 87Six@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Can anyone eli5 what winrar offers that 7zip doesn’t? I don’t hate winrar but I failed to ever need it or prefer it instead of 7zip.

    • toddestan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      Not sure myself. Like many I used WinRAR back in the day, but it’s been at least 15 years since I last installed it.

    • λλλ@programming.devEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      Nanazip is a fork of 7-zip that is better on Windows 11. Doesn’t answer your question. Just making you aware

    • filcuk@feddit.ukEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Absolutely nothing, plus 7zip can be faster with better compression.
      Well, apparently it can do some recovery of corrupted .rar, but who uses that format anyway

      • los0220@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        12 hours ago

        I’ve used .rar to backup some data to an unpowered drives, some time ago. You can reserve additional space for the checksums while compressing, so you won’t be able to recover just regular .rar files.

  • dan1101@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I actually paid for it back in 2017. I had been using it for free a looong time by then.

  • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    anyone who still distributes anything compressed with winrar, please just fucking stop

    use it for your personal archival purposes if you must, but please just fucking stop using it to share or distribute anything publicly. there’s zero reason to use .rar over 7z or zip or tgz or any other open standard

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Pay for independently-developed software if you care about it continuing to exist. Steal from corporations all you want. But support independent devs (and small teams) to make sure they can keep maintaining the tools you love and rely on. It’s the only way to not get swallowed by the big dogs.

  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Lol, windows users.

    Is it possible they are getting MORE paying people because lets face it, nobody RAR’s the day to day stuff.

    This seems like an increase in files on peoples computers like: ididntwantopayforthisgame_crack.rar

  • mycodesucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.

  • Hakuso@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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.