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Wait till you learn about 7zip…
7zip didn't exist when winrar was released... im pretty sure anyway...
Fact check: TRUE
Winrar released April 1995, and 7zip released January 1999 according to Wikipedia.
Yeah there was a time when winrar was basically the best option for zip files it made it easy...
There was Winzip before.
Yeah, but it was a poster child for nagware.
Then rar came along, and that sweet sweet compression and multi-volume splitting made it the best tool for those sailing a jolly roger on those slow, stormy seas...
I don't really have an issue with nagware. You got a powerful, useful piece of software for free. I'm starting to see a lot of comments in this vein on Lemmy. Open Source is fantastic, but it's also okay to want to get paid for the time and effort put into something.