Literally the only reason WinRAR had ever been used is because people either didn’t know about 7zip, or their parents dropped them on their heads causing them to “prefer WinRAR” 🤮
It’s what I used for an extremely long time, so i just sort of… kept using it. I’ve only recently swapped to 7-Zip. I think the only feature it has that 7-Zip doesn’t is making part files? But I could be wrong.
part files is what made WinRAR so popular with the piracy community. Especially back in the before times, when you were direct downloading and an internect hiccup would cause a download to fail/restart. Being able to download a thing in smaller parts, only having to restart smaller chunks instead of the whole, and then assembling the whole build as one… that’s what made WinRAR useful…
Compression was nice and all too, but self executing part assembly was the standout feature. Again, rendered useless when download managers are built into modern broswers. You can retry a direct download without having to restart the whole file.
WinRAR supports compression and extraction of all types. If you have winRAR, you can make a .7z and a .rar and a .zip and .gzip and .iso and a .tar and a…
Do people even still need to use WinRAR? I mean, the rar format isn’t even that prevalent anymore, not even for piracy stuff…
It was useful 20 years ago, but like, most OS have native support for it now, making it even further useless to download a WinRAR.
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Yeah I thought everyone used that. Why bother with Winrar?
I think it’s mostly out of spite.
For me it’s nostalgia…
Arj for life!
On earth we call it Ark actually
I use peaZip because I’m a hipster
I use PeaZip because it’s the only thing I’ve found that can handle the ancient ACE archive format.
Literally the only reason WinRAR had ever been used is because people either didn’t know about 7zip, or their parents dropped them on their heads causing them to “prefer WinRAR” 🤮
Which OS has native rar support?
It’s what I used for an extremely long time, so i just sort of… kept using it. I’ve only recently swapped to 7-Zip. I think the only feature it has that 7-Zip doesn’t is making part files? But I could be wrong.
part files is what made WinRAR so popular with the piracy community. Especially back in the before times, when you were direct downloading and an internect hiccup would cause a download to fail/restart. Being able to download a thing in smaller parts, only having to restart smaller chunks instead of the whole, and then assembling the whole build as one… that’s what made WinRAR useful…
Compression was nice and all too, but self executing part assembly was the standout feature. Again, rendered useless when download managers are built into modern broswers. You can retry a direct download without having to restart the whole file.
the file splits, yea. but it was the recovery records that winrar has that made it become the de facto standard in that place we don’t talk about.
You can make split archives with 7Zip, no problem.
WinRAR supports compression and extraction of all types. If you have winRAR, you can make a .7z and a .rar and a .zip and .gzip and .iso and a .tar and a…