Microsoft is releasing a big Windows 11 update on September 26. Update 23H2 includes the new AI-powered Windows Copilot feature, a native RAR app, a new volume mixer and a lot more.

  • N3Cr0
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    3110 months ago

    Who would even create rar archives these days, when there is 7zip?

    • ZILtoid1991
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      1110 months ago

      Memesters, because WinRAR is a negware type of shareware (having an unlimited trial period), which constitutes as being “the good guy”.

        • ZILtoid1991
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          19 months ago

          Don’t try to understand memesters. I once installed one 7zip instead of WinRAR, and he installed the latter because “it’s free, you just have to click the button and wait a little bit”. It was even worse with the uTorrent vs. qBitTorrent situation, where the former is a de-facto spyware/adware, but the latter isn’t in piracy memes.

    • Vanon
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      10 months ago

      People using WinRAR. “Why would people use WinRAR?” It has more features than 7zip (password, encryption, profile presets especially).

      If you’re asking why Microsoft would include it as a format for their extremely basic compression tool built into Explorer… why not, it’s one of the top three formats.

      • @elephantium@lemmy.world
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        310 months ago

        more features than 7zip (password, encryption,

        Eh? 7zip supports these.

        profile presets

        I have to admit, I’m not familiar with this feature.

        • Vanon
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          310 months ago

          What I mean is more options for those features. The profiles and password tools are especially clever. (Examples: Password organizer can be locked with short master password, great for quickly decrypting archives matching ANY stored password. Profiles can quickly encrypt using specific settings, including super-long saved password without entering it.)