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Laowai18
7-zip for me.
TheGreatAtomsk
"this email contains a rar-archive, which includes your license key." - sure...
rakudaniku
TrueShoba
Once my Company started making any money that was the first thing I bought :3.
SherMattLockSmith
They don't care about individuals at all. They make all of their money from commercial licenses and will send lawyers after companies that don't pay for licenses, so it is good that your company did pay for licenses.
NZSheeps
FluffehBunneh
This...makes me want to buy a WinRAR license. (And I don't even use WinRAR. I use 7zip, for the occasional extracting or compressing.)
ZackWester
the thing was WINRAR did not really care about privet/induvidual user. it was company and company did the bulk order thing. Like if all induvidual that was using WinRAR daily was paying it would still be a drop in the bucket (not worth the effort).
MioTaalas
I just use 7zip...
ICutRocksOnYoutube
splungedude
Been using Total Commander since the early 2000's with integrated packing and unpacking. I can't remember the last time I actually installed a (un)packer
Shewy92
You singlehandedly saved WinRAR
299796
People pay for winrar?????????
10yearslurking
2004, woohoo
Ishman2000
DJOldguy
Been using 7Zip like forever.. oh yeah, I got pissed at winrar sending me so many ads so uninstalled closed account and haven't been bothered since.
76000BatteryLlamas
PPlank
7Zip.
petpet3d
I was all about ARJ
klaceo
CacklingOctopus
Oh man, I remember running across this when I was young and thinking, "What the heck is a puh-kun-zip?"
BlastFX
Ew, thieving piece of shit Phil Katz! ARC or GTFO!
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
Still use pkzip daily (part of Siemens plc software suite)
TheFuckfaceWhisperer
Wait. I thought pkz 2.04g was the latest version
OverwhelmingSurplusOfDiggity
PKWare is still eating Phil Katz’s corpse, and they are all the way to 2.70 now.
But for real pkzip, I also think 2.04g is the latest.
keillrandor
Back in that time, I had an Amiga and would have been using LHA, with whatever frontend, probably.
Plifplafpluff
strikt9
Wow, havent thought of pkzip in a while.
Dreyzzyn
Hurts my soul how many custodians still use it and have it baked into their backasswards processes.
iDrinkIsleLays
so do thru still work with newer compression algorithms? I've been busy using 7zip
RoboUnicornFishBalls
Marvin e-mailed me in 2016. I'm so sorry America.
DragonWithUnfinishedProjects
im still using an "expired trial version" of WinRAR. It keeps yelling at me to buy but thats avoidable as long as you dont actually click on the zip file you need to open and just right click it instead. Works as it should lol.
CheezitsLight
Peazip is modern and can do anything.
zmanz
I just reDl hjsplit :)
Conz
I got mine in 2002 :O One of the first programs I actually bought due to frequent use extracting ..things ..
WolfandPals
Is this a "I have to call the FBI" moment
Z0op
Sigh *unzips*
astromoondoggie
vakler
ministryofpeace
Linux isos, right?
sparmek
Minecraft mods, right?
blaghart
7zip is totally free tho...
MsQuin
So is WinRAR,in fact it being "free" is their business model. And least that's what i hear. Something like even though the free "trial" goes on forever most business that is it professionally will buy the licences just in case. Saw it on a Tom Scott video i think
MsQuin
That is... a lot of typos. Kinda wish we could edit comments
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
If you're extracting things, why not extract things to let you extract things without the nag-window? (This is a joke, not a suggestion. WinRAR deserves purchase.)
gluttonygreedpridewrathslothlustenvy
On Linux and Mac, rar archive utilities are FOSS
jethroismaxbaer5772
Got a lot of use on MegaUpload and Rapidshare, eh?
Conz
This was the era of archive cd-roms still.
snova595
Haven’t heard those names in a long time
cyclone0619
Y'all haven't heard of 7zip? Free and better than WinRAR.
theworldcouldbeflat
You are getting downvoted. Bot post.
cyclone0619
And here's your down vote. 7 zip is freeware. No one is making a bot to advertise something that doesn't make profit.
theworldcouldbeflat
Not you 7 zip rules, meant people wouldn't Downvote you, winzip bot...
Quixus
Free yes, whether the compression algorithm is better depends on the type of files you wish to archive.
cyanideremark
A cracked version of WinZip for this outlaw; (thumbs own chest)
tallyhoho
My husband just said the same thing and I'll tell you what I told him. You so smart! I'm so proud of you big boy!
NordicusMaximus
I use a licensed copy of Winzip 9.0 to this day. It does all I need it to do, without being annoying like 7zip
PabloEscargot
Honest question: Is Winzip still relevant with faster data transfer and the improvements in data storage we have today?
NordicusMaximus
It’s far better than the embedded Microsoft file compression utility, and most business clients I do IT for, send and receive zip files, not rar files.
endomorph
WinZip was easy to crack. We just changed "jump if equal" [key=correct] to "jump if not equal", so all wrong keys would then register. Fun!
USSBigBooty
Just use 7zip lol
cyanideremark
Wasn't around in in 1994
wasiteverreal
Oh is it 1994?
cyanideremark
Listen kiddo... I'm clinging to my glory days; even if yours are still 20 years off.
wasiteverreal
Hey man. You do you. If you happy, then you’re doing life right.
IntelligentLake
I bought two copies, in 2010 and 2017 to use it at two computers at once. For the first its registered to my name, the second to - my name -
DummyThiccStealyBoi
7zip is free ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Dimestream
After using it from my first mods for Oblivion to my first mod for Skyrim, I did end up purchasing it too. Kept the receipt as a curio.
Causeitsmadeofmeat
PKZip for the win
WwwhyYouNoLikeMe
for unix as well
ChocolatePizzaMemes
I've used Winrar for so many years for free, I now pay for it to give a little back.
Snooj
WHY DO THEY NOT CALL IT A RARCHIVE?
alaest0r
Rawrchive uwu
hotaru251
https://x.com/winrar_rarlab?lang=en if you tweet at em that you buy a copy they usually reply and are so happy for you
NZSheeps
Shaodyn
Most programs these days: "Your subscription expired, please pay us again to continue using this product."
WinRAR: "You bought the full version once ten years ago and you're still golden. Have fun."
Shaodyn
A lot of times, you don't even buy the product. You buy a subscription to the product. Imagine if that was acceptable with physical goods. You go to the store and buy a grill. A month later, the store sends you another bill for the same price. If you don't pay for the grill again, someone from the store comes and takes it back to the store.
notacobra
I spent an entire decade using 7zip and having people say "you should use WinRAR instead!"
"Why?"
"....it's better!"
alaest0r
Nowadays I use nanazip for windows systems
JustASlightJingleOfPocketChangePulsing
Sometimes 7zip doesn't work with split rars that are split certain ways
DriverIRQnotlessOrEqual
7 zip is better if the archive has a password. Winrar has a more classic aesthetic interface in file explorer
LeftRightThere
I use 7zip for inspecting tar, iso, wim, and binary files on windows. I even have the cli portion as part of automations.
jqubed
I was introduced to IZArc in 2005 when I started university (it was on all the computers by default); it’s always served me well
HeraldofOmega
Thanks for this find!
meskarune
I use this as well
JohnnyLawlessEsq
This. I don't understand why everyone doesn't use 7-zip.
crackblind
I'm using 7-zip right now.
Abracaderpa
Because "This." is blatantly false. WinRAR does support multithreading. Making decisions based on misinformation is not my jam, but you do you.
OverwhelmingSurplusOfDiggity
The 7zip UI is bad.
OverwhelmingSurplusOfDiggity
And for posterity: The 7zip UI is so bad that I'd rather pay for WinRAR than use 7zip for free.
cosonfused
I prefer the interface for WinRAR. And honestly, they both do what they need to do and work fine. So what if 7zip has multithread support. I very much doubt you'll notice it, because realistically who is unzipping stuff all day.
Also, Winrar is better.
JustSomePersonThere
7zip is superior. The people who disagree are the same who are allergic to CLI’s because “ew no scary DOS interface!”
vizeroy42
I use the "decompress to individual folders" option in winrar rather regularly, when I get new 3d printing files. The artists rarely put everything in one file these days.
OatmealChocolateChipCookies
Recovery records.
Daemencer
Isn't it pre installed on windows?
endomorph
No. The bad Win archiver just has 7z support now, nothing more. They sure seem to imply it's the same thing tho. Maybe the icon's similar?
TheAuthorOfTheJournalsMyBrother
Windows has built in archive support, but like most things, it's not very good.
echonite
I find winRAR to be easier to use, and the icon is more distinct than 7Z which makes files easier to identify at a glance.
Dasnekones
This just reminds me that I can choose what icon any program displays as. Have not done that since windows 98 or somthing.
The701
I like WinRAR's interface. "Extract each archive to separate folder," and Windows-standard sorting of columns, a less glitchy interface (7zip redraws or refreshes the file list constantly while compressing; visually distracting), recovery data in the files, and just for my taste, a better UI feel. But damn, 7zip is absolutely amazing for compressing the hell out of text data.
BobDaBilda
Ctrl+Click a bunch of archives, right click the group, hover over the 7-Zip section, click "Extract to */". This has been standard since I've used 7-Zip, ages and ages.
VictusVonGuyver
There was actually one program that was better than either of them way back in early 2000's. I actually used it because so many Japanese gamers used it for filesharing. It had so much better file compression but it was niche in the market.
I used it for a couple of years but My computer was stolen. Abd j could never remember the name or track it down.
It's probably forgotten Abandonware that hasn't been updated since.