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.
this? Sort of. In Windows, an archive within an archive within an archive wouldn’t be flagged as a “file downloaded from the internet” so could be executed without malware checks. It’s a windows-specific issue and is only an issue if you’re downloading an untrusted archive from the internet. It’s patched in the latest version.
7-zip.
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.
Didn’t 7-zip have a vulnerability a while back?
this? Sort of. In Windows, an archive within an archive within an archive wouldn’t be flagged as a “file downloaded from the internet” so could be executed without malware checks. It’s a windows-specific issue and is only an issue if you’re downloading an untrusted archive from the internet. It’s patched in the latest version.
Yeah, WinRAR averages about 3 per year.
All software stacks are going to be vulnerable in some way or another. We don’t have a way to create perfect software just yet.