Poll title: Which file archiver/compression utility do you use? - Options: Built-in / Default archiver in Windows/Linux/Mac,7-Zip,Archiver,Bandizip,BetterZip,Keka,PeaZip,WinRAR,WinZip,Others
I’m a basic bitch, winrar for life. If I need mac compatibility I save as a zip instead of a rar. Seems I am alone in my basic bitchness, my assumption was that all compression utilities are doing the same thing… how come you’re all using something different?
Because there are free and open source alternatives available, rather than having WinRAR beg you to pay for it every time you open it. You should really try 7-Zip. Haven’t looked back at WinRAR or any other utility since.
It doesn’t bother me to just hit ESC after I open it, can see how that would bug others (though tbf that’s the point, and it remains free for me to use despite escaping out of that request for decades). Are there any advantages in speed of compression by switching to a different program?
I’m a basic bitch, winrar for life. If I need mac compatibility I save as a zip instead of a rar. Seems I am alone in my basic bitchness, my assumption was that all compression utilities are doing the same thing… how come you’re all using something different?
Because there are free and open source alternatives available, rather than having WinRAR beg you to pay for it every time you open it. You should really try 7-Zip. Haven’t looked back at WinRAR or any other utility since.
It doesn’t bother me to just hit ESC after I open it, can see how that would bug others (though tbf that’s the point, and it remains free for me to use despite escaping out of that request for decades). Are there any advantages in speed of compression by switching to a different program?
You significantly overestimate the amount of effort people want to put into getting a new utility set up when they already have one that works
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