It’s fascinating to me that people prefer shitty nagware over 7-zip only because they think they’re “getting one over” by not paying for inferior software and/or feel nostalgic for it.
For a good while, the UI in 7-Zip was so atrocious merely extracting an existing archive was not obvious. It definitely improved over that.
I’d argue that even today, WinRAR UI is more intuitive than 7-Zip, but it is largely irrelevant since both have decent integration with windows file explorer anyway, which was also something 7-Zip lacked for a while.
I feel nostalgic for WinRAR and I don’t need or want the fucking bag. Fucking.rar was the first file extension I remember learning at like 6yo that wasn’t something dumb like .txt .jpg .doc .ppt .exe
It’s fascinating to me that people prefer shitty nagware over 7-zip only because they think they’re “getting one over” by not paying for inferior software and/or feel nostalgic for it.
I bought it because 7-zip was shit back then so yeah ill stick with WinRar
Back when?
For a good while, the UI in 7-Zip was so atrocious merely extracting an existing archive was not obvious. It definitely improved over that.
I’d argue that even today, WinRAR UI is more intuitive than 7-Zip, but it is largely irrelevant since both have decent integration with windows file explorer anyway, which was also something 7-Zip lacked for a while.
Probably 10-15 years ago or something
I feel nostalgic for WinRAR and I don’t need or want the fucking bag. Fucking.rar was the first file extension I remember learning at like 6yo that wasn’t something dumb like .txt .jpg .doc .ppt .exe