And I went on their page to subscribe for a lifetime membership, and they wanted 20 bucks, which I was okay with, but it does not include Major Updates! I guess I’ll buy it and just click the do not check for updates button but that seemed kind of, I don’t know.
I still think they’re pretty cool for not hassling you more than they do.
Am I wrong that this bothered me?
7zip is also free and doesn’t hassle you, for what it’s worth.
There’s also Peazip, which handles more formats. I believe both are open source projects.
Also, the GUI frontend on Peazip is far more pleasing to the eye.
Why support closed source software that hassles you when 7-zip is open source and works great?
Familiarity, and a case of unzipper’s guilt
I’m not sure why they use a subscription model instead of simply asking for donations.
I would just donate that money to 7zip or PeaZip creators that would benefit everybody.
WinRar works good with .rar files because they created them just to sell buissness licences for something that can be as easly done with tar and gzip.How ironic for RAR to become the standard for piracy back in the day.
Donate to 7z
You have given them a donation for using their software like forever. All fine, no ?
The open source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeaZip can do rar it seems.
my friend, let me enlighten you to the ways of 7zip.
Not that I am supporting the transition to Windows 11, but apparently RAR support is built into 11 now, along with Zip functionality (it might just be in 11 Pro, tho, not sure).
Thank you for your generosity. Its okay with me if you care about this opinion at all.
I think winrars legacy is not that it remains the best choice, but that they will earned and maintained our respect for so many years.
Their legacy hopefully will be that our subjective experience will be made better any time some other entity emulates them.
Hopefully it will lead to as much positivity in the future indirectly as it has in the past directly. In a world that doesnt appreciate long term thinking planning and reacting, thank you for your choice.
You are a customer of winrar. And you didnt have to be. If everything was like this it fix capitalism
I prefer IZArc
Sounds good to me. WinRAR has been a king, and still has the upper hand over 7Z as far as archival integrity, bitrot prevention with recovery records and timestamp preservation goes.
I will someday pay for WinRAR, even though I use it lesser now.
