If I used windows, I would totally do this....
Once I found 7zip, WinRAR was obsolete. Lately though I've just been using the built in extractor in Linux because it works just fine.
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Windows Explorer can now open other types of archive, but it's really slow about extracting at least some of them compared to 7zip.
Every linux archive manager is better than windows crap.
- mark multiple zips and extract, they all extract. Windows doesnt do that, it extracts one
- fuck "open in new window" windows that is horrible UI and only works well on tiling window managers lol
- allows to use ANY archive format
- allows to extract and delete in one go, the most commonly used action
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I heard the original developers still personally call and eagerly thank every individual registrant. It's not that many calls.
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WinRAR. It’s really whips the Lammas ass.
Or use 7zip like any sane person
on windows I use peazip because I can right click context menu > extract to smart new folder - does 7zip do that? if so I'd switch back
Depending on what you mean with "smart", when I used Windows 7zip also offered to extract into a new folder through a context menu
In this context (IIRC) smart means "if this zip contains a single folder with contents, directly extract that folder, but if the zip contains files and/or folders, extract all that to a new folder named the same as the zip file".
Some people zip folders while some people zip the files in a folder. Smart extraction just handles both automatically.
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I’d buy winrar just because it has served me very well and all for free, for at least a decade even if I use mostly 7zip now. They earned that license fee
And donate a ton of money
Software pirates still love it for some reason. You'd think they'd use non-proprietary archival programs.
recovery records are an essential feature for.... uh.... certain 'distribution methods' about which we are forbidden to speak of.
But still buy winRAR for the meme
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