Well now I’m definitely not buying it.
I never understood the appeal of paid programs. 7-Zip works equally well and is free and open source software. It integrates much nicer into File Explorer as well.
Supporting the developers??
Microsoft basically copied WinRAR added it to the OS, back in the windows 7 days you needed WinRAR
WinRar decompresses directly to destination. All other I have tried does it to like c:/tmp (can probably change that though) then copy it over, which is impractical or even impossible with really large files.
That’s about it though IMO.
You can decompress directly to the destination with 7zip as well. You just need to use the “extract” button instead of doing a drag and drop.
You deserve the updoot sir
Well at least someone’s gonna make money from WinRAR users
Well, good that Windows now has native RAR support.
Somehow Windows has always been and is still crap at managing archives. Ultra-slow, has trouble opening or extracting individual files inside the archive, etc.
However, 7-zip has been doing all that perfectly forever now. Not sure why anyone would use WinRAR, paid for or not.
PeaZip is GOAT software. Truly amazing.
However, from a practical perspective, deceiving users into performing the required action shouldn’t be overly challenging, and given the vast size of WinRAR’s user base
Excuse me, but “vast” size of WinRAR’s user base? I didn’t know WinRAR even had any users left.
There is that one last user
Well, even FAR manager which they’ve open-souced long time ago is still maintained 😀 Good thing they didn’t discover this bug in 2000s!
Ah, FAR manager.
I used it last time around… 15 years ago to apply VKP patches on my Sony Ericsson phones :P like making my K750i into a ‘W750i’ with W800i software, adding GFX and Acoustic patches…
I’m still using sweet FAR Manager, absolute baller of a software.
