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[-] kuneho@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

9 out of 10 people I know use WinRAR. It's amongst the very firsr software they install at fresh start.

I myself also just changed to 7-Zip around... I don't know, a year ago?

[-] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 14 points 1 year ago

Which part of the world is this, if you don't mind me asking? (just genuinely curious, cause I haven't come across any WinRARs in the wild here in NZ, most folks I know use either 7-Zip or PeaZip).

[-] kuneho@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'm from Europe, in the embrace of the Carpathian Mountains :)

before WinRAR, people used WinZIP here in the '00s (at least Windows folks). Again, a strange choice, I know.

[-] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Am in the US and used winrar for a long time as it was integrated into Usenet binaries as rar files. It was embedded with some other software.

[-] graphite@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

WinRAR was what I used in the 2000s. Around 2011, 7-zip was my goto. I haven't looked back since.

I wasn't aware of pea-zip until this thread

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