Technology

Nanazip is a fork of 7-zip that is better on Windows 11. Doesn't answer your question. Just making you aware

Winrar is older, so it has more sentimental users

Absolutely nothing, plus 7zip can be faster with better compression.
Well, apparently it can do some recovery of corrupted .rar, but who uses that format anyway

Hey outlook, can you save all 15 attachments to this folder? The 15 attachments I can view in outlook? The 15 attachments that drag and drop out of the email into a folder as expected? The 15 attachments that I can individually save as expected to a folder?

"best I can do is a zip file for the whole batch"

Does it matter when 7zip handles rar anyways?

We live in strange times

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.

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.

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

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.

You wrote 7zip wrong

The one true MVP!

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

That's how I know I'm home

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

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

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