I’m troubled by that literal brick of leaf cards
I actually really like winrar. Is it my format of choice? No, there’s open free alternatives. But it was a legit better product developed by like one guy that they then proceeded to give free access to with a license that incentivises paying them for their work and has probably raked in insane sums from corporations over the years. It’s what happens when you have a Microsoft like idea without the endless greed to sprawl into a billion dollar company.
It wasn’t a better product, it was worse in every measurable way but one: You could split archives into arbitrary sizes so you could steal warez off Usenet in 1-floppy chunks. That’s it. It’s a ho-hum product at best.
Winrar definitely compresses better than zip. At least based on my experience.
For that price, does it compress anything you put in the bag?
Yeah that’s called a bag of holding and it would be worth 1000x that. Hell I’d probably save up all my Pennie’s for that.
The varsity jacket looks like a 6th-grader designed it.
Yeah… I’d buy some of this stuff to be ironic, but it doesn’t look very good 🤷♂️
It should absolutely come with a free copy of WinRAR.
Technically everything comes with a free copy of WinRAR
I use tar. And they never beg for money
People are making fun of it in the comments, but i ordered one on restock day and I’m excited!
Tbh I never found out about 7zip until like when I was 30. And I’m 33 now xd. I used WinRAR for years.
And I will say, 7zip is much better. No offense to WinRAR. I got much respect for WinRAR.
Oh it’s not a joke.
My reaction to this whole year tbh
Libre software selling whatever they can is good for maintaining development.
If the Linux kernel ever changed to AGPLv3 I would for sure buy one GNU/Linux stable release each year to make up for corporations that would ban Linux from their network due to AGPL3 legal obligations.
Prob those companies will go back to windows server or freebsd lol.
For the sake of basic security, there should be a lot more corporate adoption of OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Company networks would be a lot more secure than using Linux due to Linux’s schizophrenic nature. Ask a full time BSD sysadmin their view on Linux.
Honest question: to what are you referring by “Linux’s schizophrenic nature”?
It’s proprietary.
corporations that would ban Linux from their network
You can’t change the license retroactively. Corporations would likely hard-fork the kernel at the last GPL2 commit and move it to a restricted but compliant access model like Red Hat did.
You can change the license moving forward though it takes a tremendous amount of effort.
Only rich companies have dedicated full time kernel developers. The vast majority literally take full advantage of the fact that the kernel is free (gratis). And any changes they make to the GPL2 kernel is still subject to open source disclosure.
I believe Torvalds has publicly stated that he wouldn’t support a move to GPL3, let alone AGPL.
7-zip.
It’s fascinating to me that people prefer shitty nagware over 7-zip only because they think they’re “getting one over” by not paying for inferior software and/or feel nostalgic for it.
I bought it because 7-zip was shit back then so yeah ill stick with WinRar
Back when?
For a good while, the UI in 7-Zip was so atrocious merely extracting an existing archive was not obvious. It definitely improved over that.
I’d argue that even today, WinRAR UI is more intuitive than 7-Zip, but it is largely irrelevant since both have decent integration with windows file explorer anyway, which was also something 7-Zip lacked for a while.
Probably 10-15 years ago or something
I feel nostalgic for WinRAR and I don’t need or want the fucking bag. Fucking.rar was the first file extension I remember learning at like 6yo that wasn’t something dumb like .txt .jpg .doc .ppt .exe
Didn’t 7-zip have a vulnerability a while back?
The one that was patched back in September? Yes
Relevant link: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/02/7-zip-0-day-was-exploited-in-russias-ongoing-invasion-of-ukraine/
this? Sort of. In Windows, an archive within an archive within an archive wouldn’t be flagged as a “file downloaded from the internet” so could be executed without malware checks. It’s a windows-specific issue and is only an issue if you’re downloading an untrusted archive from the internet. It’s patched in the latest version.
Yeah, WinRAR averages about 3 per year.
All software stacks are going to be vulnerable in some way or another. We don’t have a way to create perfect software just yet.
Does 7-zip have a bag though?
NanaZip
Oh, I’ll have to try that, it looks nice. I tried PeaZip because the 7zip UI didn’t sit with me well initially; I’ve gotten used to it since then but I like the way NanaZip looks from the screenshots; I’ll try it!
Edit: Wait – Is this a WINDOWS-Only package? Eww… nevermind.
Yep Windows only. Just trying to give those users better tools until they finally get the idea to switch to Linux
Even when I do use windows packages, I always try to use ones that are Linux supported as well; so when I do finally make the full-time switch, the transition will be easier. But I find I always just do tar -xvf or unzip in a command line over there anyhow >_>
As someone who actually paid for WinRAR, will I get a free bag?
Why did you pay for winrar? Would you still do so today or do you find that free/opensource alternatives are as good or better?
Idk about the person you replied to, but I always told my self I’ll pay for this if I ever get a well paying job. Eventually got a high paying job, and paid for a product key.
Ofc mass layoffs I’m back to struggling but at least I kept the promise I made to myself.
I’m a developer, too, and I did shareware/donationware ages ago.
I simply paid WinRAR for their work, from one honest developer to another.
And no, I would not pay today, as this was just for a windows box I used for a job at that time, and where I needed a halfway decent archiver tool, which Windows does not supply out of the box.
I usually work on Linux, where lack of fundamental tools is not an issue.
Also, does it count if “I” paid for it on the company card
I paid it.
I bought WinRAR, for a pretty specific reason: It can handle Japanese locale. The assorted games, patches, manga, and so forth couldn’t be handled by 7zip/PeaZip at the time.
You’ve never paid for WinRAR because you’re cheap. I’ve never paid for WinRAR because I know 7-Zip exists.
We are not the same.
