87Six comments on WinRAR releases new update and says it’s thanks to people finally paying

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[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Can anyone eli5 what winrar offers that 7zip doesn't? I don't hate winrar but I failed to ever need it or prefer it instead of 7zip.

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[–] filcuk@feddit.uk 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] los0220@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I've used .rar to backup some data to an unpowered drives, some time ago. You can reserve additional space for the checksums while compressing, so you won't be able to recover just regular .rar files.

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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

A lot, sadly. I don't know why.

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[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 6 points 4 months ago

Winrar is older, so it has more sentimental users