WinRAR releases new update and says it’s thanks to people finally paying

I bought a license when I got my first adult paycheck. And a PS2. Good times

Same. I’ve happily used it for over 2 decades and decided that they actually deserve some money for that. I’ve since switched to Linux, but don’t regret paying for WinRAR at all.

I knew someone must exist!

Me too! Must be 20+ years since I bought it.

I use 7zip.

Ever since i found out that there is a yearly subscription for winrar on android, ive been paying for it.

I dont even use winrar anymore but it gives the same satisfaction as donating to wikipedia, and its just a few bucks so why not

I’m glad you can have a Windows-free existence.

Some things just don’t function well on Linux, but there are lots of us who are 99% Linux and don’t use Windows unless we have to.

Deleted Windows from every computer I ever owned.

Then because of a certain chain of events came the time to look into working from home. Boy oh boy, I guess it depends on the type of work you do but for what I’m qualified for they absolutely do not vibe with anything except Windows. I couldn’t even find many that would at least let you use Mac.

I begrudgingly installed Windows 11 on my machine again the other day for this very reason. I’ll still dual boot of course but man, I’m really not happy about it.

Also, Windows are complete dicks about letting you make a bootable windows USB gotta either use apps not in your distro directory or use another Windows computer to make one. Wtf is that shit about? And I had to spend like 2 hours making windows suck less.

It reminds me of how apps are starting to treat me for using Graphene OS

Not everything is a competition. If people want to support WinRAR after the developer maintained it for more than 30 years and helped out millions of people, that’s just fine.

Nanazip is the preferred Windows tool.

I use it on occasion, since it will deflate 100+GB zip files much faster than 7zip will. (7z is single threaded for pkzips)

It’s been more than a decade since I used it to compress anything though. LZMA2 rocks.

Or WinZip. I work for a company that literally has the licenses for every computer they own. Why? 7-zip is free.

FOSS users when there’s a software that’s free but not open source

That’s how I know I’m home

What else did you expect from lemmy?

I think theyre still popular on Usenet.

IDK all the history but rar has built in ability to create recovery data / parity volumes.

Parity data is like additional data that can help reconstruct any degradation.

That said, usually a standalone parity generator is used which can work with other types of archives, but rar is what everyone uses so why change.

Compression algos are ineffective on encoded / compressed media anyway.

It used to be important on Usenet, and maybe still is, because if a drive starts to fail somewhere and contains errors those errors can be reproduced across the network. Not sure if thats still a thing or why but certainly 10 years ago it was.

The summary to this rambling comment is: some communities still like rar because its what they’ve always used and there’s no benefit to adopting 7z.

multi-part rar

Why not just use Tar with split and cat?

Unlike 7-Zip, which is actually free and also open-source as well

7-Zip is by far the best archiving software on Windows

No, it’s proprietary

Thats kinda of how the free license works though. Yes loads of people use it without paying but theyre free advertising.

Ah, yes, the bigger the company, the more willing to save something negligible on tools its business depends upon.

Honestly that’s why I wish more of FOSS were hobbyist like AROS, Haiku and such. FOSS projects shouldn’t be too readily usable by businesses, that allows bullshit shops with arrogant pigeon management to keep existing without building proper processes.

I mean, there’s some equilibrium here probably, but with what projects get from businesses bigger than nation-states using their work, - we’re far from it.

At the same time there are things like Java, PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx and so on. I don’t know.

It just seems sometimes that FOSS breaks market mechanisms in favor of big businesses not giving back to the rest of economy, which seems the opposite of its intuitively and emotionally perceived goal.

But maybe archivers are not it. Not a fan of the idea of having a set of 10 different archivers all often needed, like people did in the 90s. OK, I was a baby in the 90s. Many people didn’t have PCs in the 90s.

But can we just go back to weak connectivity (say, asynchronous message exchange of everyone to everyone via BT ; global cryptographic identities and message ids, sort of a global p2p cryptographically contracted Usenet), a zoo of common operating systems and hardware platforms, evolution, competition, geekiness, interesting things.

Isn’t that like saying all Americans are evil because our president is a piece of trash?

It is important to think about and keep in mind, but it’s also important not to judge blindly. Do some research before you make a decision on something like this and try to make an informed decision. People aren’t responsible for where they’re born, and not everyone is in a position for fight or flight. Most Russians are victims of Putin too, some worse than others. Many of them may be ignorant, yes, and even deeply unpleasant and unlikable people with nasty attitudes, but they are also brainwashed by one of the most manipulative and subtly oppressive regimes that has possibly ever existed in the modern world. Organizing a resistance against tyranny isn’t easy. Even finding the motivation to resist it isn’t easy. If it was easy, we wouldn’t have such problems with tyrants all around the world, and orangeman wouldn’t have lasted a week.

If you don’t want to send money that will end up in Russia, I don’t blame you. If you are afraid of the infiltration and malware risks that come with using software made in Russia, I don’t blame you for that either. But the guy himself is probably just a normal person, unless there’s specific evidence otherwise. “Othering” and demonizing other people is the path to the dark side. You can hate the country and government and the system, and you should, but not the people born and raised within it. They’re in a big fucking mess, and you would be too if you lived there. Just because you think you’d make different choices personally, doesn’t mean they’re making bad ones for the situation they’re in.

We are all just people. We are not better or worse than any other people. We are all trying to do the same things in life. Even the Russian people. But we’ve been made to be different by our environments and nations and governments that benefit from us being divided and hating each other. Don’t play their game.

Going to start boycotting American companies too, seeing as the USA and its people has always, are, and will always be the worst group of people on earth.