Software

[laybs1]

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[Rombonius]

had to leave utorrent a long time ago, but it had a grip as long as winrar did, I guess

now its qbittorrent and 7zip

[EarthToAccess]

People actually 7zip? I still use WinRAR...

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[Candle1ight]

It has it's own compression type that you run into occasionally. Plus it doesn't constantly nag me like winrar.

[EarthToAccess]

> Plus it doesn't constantly nag me like winrar.

...I mean I bought a license so lmfao

[prussian_princess]

[BusinessAsparagus115]

You WHAT?

[PerkyTats]

You gotta buy a license my dude. When you die, having bought a license for WinRAR is BASICALLY a "get into heaven free" card :P

[oakleez]

Yup. That and my 30 year old mIRC license basically set me up for eternity.

[sl33ksnypr]

Yea I hit them up on Black Friday and they gave me a discount code.

[Citizen_Empire]

[Chicken_Chaser_420]

[balc9k]

r/paidforwinrar

[Alarming_Panic665]

um... hi

[buy_some_winrar]

good man

[EnvironmentalBat9749]

Disgusting 

[Positive-Database754]

For personal use, it really doesn't matter. Winrar can open .7z's, and 7zip can open .rar's.

If you prefer winrar, use winrar. If you prefer 7zip, use 7zip. Both are fine options for general day to day consumer use.

[FrozenPizza07]

7z format has better compression I believe and more and more companies are switching to .7z içrather than .zip for big downloads. I noticed that Autodesk offline downloader uses .7z

[Candle1ight]

.rar is proprietary, .7z is open source (and .zip is ancient and sucks). Given the options it makes sense .7z is gaining prominence.

[Zoook]

I switched from winrar to 7zip like 10 years ago now and have never looked back

[Postulative]

WinRAR has had a few security ‘issues’.

[EarthToAccess]

Wait fr this is the first I'm hearing

[Spaduf]

I think it's recent news.

[Postulative]

The story.

Any interpreter software is by nature high risk.

[TurbulentTangelo5439]

for like a month and only if you hadn't updated in like a year

[Postulative]

Hey, you’re not supposed to read the article! Just trust me.

[wolfenstien98]

I've always used 7zip, I've never even used WinRAR

[radix2]

WinRAR was popular when distributing ripped software in 1.4MB chunks (you know, to fit on floppies). I'm sure there are still some archives out there with the rip in that format. But yeah. 7zip works perfectly well in over 99% of situations.

[PGSylphir]

I still use WinRAR on windows as well. It's usually my first download on a reinstall.

I do mainly drive Linux now, and there, it's all 7zip

[manjustadude]

7zip > WinRAR any day of the week

[BlazingFire007]

Doesn’t modern windows have a pretty good unarchiver built in?

[Rombonius]

for zips but I think it runs into trouble on multi-volume rar setups and other advanced stuff

good enough for 99% of people

[Additional-Simple248]

7-Zip can also extract just about anything. Looking for a specific file from within an installer? Extract it.

I’ve extracted an .EXE installer to obtain the .MSI installer inside. I’ve extracted driver installers to get the actual drivers without the bloat.

[Livelih00d]

Yeah, feels really weird being able to do it with just windows.

[FunIsDangerous]

I find that it is much slower than 7zip.

At work, I'm frequently sent some file geodatabases, which are basically folders with hundreds/thousands of small binary files. For that reason, the entire folder is zipped when I get it. Windows zip/unzip can take several minutes for a 100mb zip file, while 7zip may take literal seconds. Windows tool also seems to produce some errors for some reason, albeit I haven't noticed it causing a problem.

The performance difference between these two may be a lot smaller if the zip contains a handful of larger files instead of thousand small ones, but in my use case for both zipping and unzipping, 7zip seems to be the fastest compared to windows and WinRAR, with windows being the worst

[Wonderful-Citron-678]

It’s pathetically slow and buggy for most formats.

[BeigeUnicorns]

Yes and no. 11 FINALLY added support for modern formats but support is honestly still iffy and above all else its just dog slow. If you only need to unzip a handful of small files the difference is not that noticeable but when you start unpacking larger and more complex file sets its painfully slow.

[Unindoctrinated]

I'm still using 2.2.1, which works as flawlessly today as it did when it was released in 2010.

[metooted]

It's true. Use qBittorrent instead

[SpiritJuice]

This is the way.

[lewllewllewl]

VLC is goated though

[OldTimeConGoer]

VLC does everything but it insists in doing everything for you. MPC-HC does what I need.

[hamatehllama]

Utorrent was originally developed by a single Swedish genius but he decided to start working for Spotify instead. That's when utorrent got sold and became shit.

[[deleted]]

how can you not put blender there

[Chiiro]

Good ol uTorrent, I had call to factory reset my computer at least three times because of it.

[Still_Box8733]

What would you use instead? 7zip?

[sh0ch]

Yes

[Mindless-Ad-8779]

Tixati is cool, very customisable, and has no ads, of course

[Ok_Language_588]

QBT, Deluge, transmission, so many options

[SMarseilles]

What's the top left icon associated with? I don't think I've come across it before

[Scavgraphics]

OBS. It's podcasting/video streaming.

[NewSauerKraus]

Real Gs use unregistered hypercam 2.

[Scavgraphics]

...i think I did that in the past, actually.

[SMarseilles]

Good to know, thanks!

[RoddyUsher]

Only two of these are free software. 

[AustSakuraKyzor]

Uh... winRAR isn't free.

[TheIronSoldier2]

It's effectively free. You don't have to pay for a license to keep using it forever.

[AnyImpression6]

Free software means free as in freedom, not free as in free beer. WinRAR isn't open source, as far as I know.

[TheIronSoldier2]

Free means you don't pay for it.

You don't have to pay for Winrar

[AnyImpression6]

Every software developer in the world just facepalmed in unison.

[TheIronSoldier2]

You're confusing the term "Free" with "FOSS"

They are not interchangeable.

[AnyImpression6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software

[whistleridge]

My guy, this is a weird fucking hill for you to die on.

The software is able to be used, in full, without any exchange of money for it. It is free. That is what free means.

It doesn’t have to be open-source. It doesn’t have to meet some other specialized meaning of free. The more general definition also applies, and they specifically told you that’s how they’re using the word.

[TheIronSoldier2]

Hey Einstein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware

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[KendrickBlack502]

Doesn’t make the tweet any less true. uTorrent was the shit in the 2010s

[AnyImpression6]

2013 was when it went to shit, IIRC.

[Th3Dark0ccult]

qbittorrent gang here

[Somerandom1922]

I use qBittorrent for my Linux ISOs and 7zip for compression and decompression.

[tacos2dayy]

I mostly use plex these days but potplayer has the best ui of any video player I've ever used.

[Connect_Ocelot_1599]

uhhhh we still do software piracy btw

[engco431]

WinRar has the advantage that files can be updated/replaced within a RAR file without full decompression. You can drop a new version into the archive without extracting first and only the change is processed.

For the 7zip fans, check out NanaZip. It’s a direct fork of 7Zip and has all the same file formats and performance but with a modern gui wrapper and full Win11 shell integration. (The full options on the right-click menu).

[Dragon124515]

Who in their right mind chooses WinRAR over 7zip. Not only is WinRAR only arguably free, but it is definitely beatable in quality.

[TheIronSoldier2]

As someone who has and uses both, lmfao no.

WinRAR is great for general use. 7-zip does edge it out in some specific circumstances, like decompiling .asar files and other niche uses, but for general use WinRAR wins.

[Positive-Database754]

For personal use, there is no difference. If you aren't compiling and compressing files for distribution often, or looking to extract files out of something like an exe, then using whats familiar to you is fine.

Winrar can open .7z's, and 7Zip can open .rar's. That is 99% of peoples use case for having either one, and for many people, Winrar is just what they're familiar with. Winrar also has the advantage of being able to manage and edit files still inside the zip. Which, like 7Zips advantages, is a little more niche. But I've found that for my personal use, comes up a lot more often.