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.
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.
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.
It should absolutely come with a free copy of WinRAR.
Technically everything comes with a free copy of WinRAR
People are making fun of it in the comments, but i ordered one on restock day and I’m excited!
They should sell a t-shirt that says “I never paid for WinRAR and all I got was this lousy t-shirt”.
I’d buy one.
They should also make a shirt that says, “I did buy WinRAR and I also bought this shirt” to really corner the market on WinRAR-related apparel.
I like it!!
“I paid for WinRAR” with a Mister Moneybags kinda character saying it or something. That would be fun.
Tarrrrrr… Gz
The bag looks nice, but it’s too small for usage (it’s shown for holding TCG cards). Would need to be closer to being able to hold a laptop, etc. And being made of “vegan” leather is just a turn off. Not for being vegan, but for only being listed as vegan, since it can be made of almost anything and the quality of vegan leather can vary dramatically.
Vegan leather can be made from plastic or “pineapple leaves, cork, kelp, agave, apple skins, wine-making remnants, kombucha, and more”. Just a basic understanding of vegan leather here..
You’re meant to compress your belongings before they go in the bag, then decompress them when you need them.
I can quickly summarize:
Word Vegan + Not A Vegan Thing = Bullshit For Morons
In that case just call it something else. Hell Chrysler created “Corinthian” leather to make the garbage they put in their cars seem like it was fancy.
And as a moron I would honestly suggest just tricking us with a delicious name instead of trying to make a vegan cheese steak that tastes terrible, then it makes younger silly moron me feel like vegan food is pretentious and terrible.
Now that is absolutely untrue and in the ensuing years my dumbass has had lots of absolutely delicious food that I didn’t even know was vegan.
Y’all gots a marketing problem, ease us morons into it, with delicious butternut squash soup.
tar -xfvz
-f needs to be the last argument here as it expects the file name correctly after
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 🤷♂️
That sucks. I’ve never used winrar but I am actually in need of a bag upgrade so I was going to look at it.
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
I hate having to find my key when I get a new computer. I know there are alternatives but I paid for it, I want it.
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
Does 7-zip have a bag though?
If it did I might consider buying it.
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 >_>
That’s fair. I just right click and pick extract on Mint
Didn’t 7-zip have a vulnerability a while back?
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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.
The perfect software doesn’t exist. That is to say, if you need something big free, use nothing.
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/
Hella respect for this move, and i like the look of these. I just wish it had come at a time before I was concerned about the price of everything that I need to survive sky rocketing. Would have purchased 2 years ago.
I believe they’re re releasing these from ~2 years ago lol. I’ve definitely seen these before, I don’t remember when, it was certainly more than a few months back.
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.
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For a compression format? I’d say it’s still relevant. Compression ratio and speed are the only meaningful metrics. And I’m not saying winrars still the best, clearly 7z has taken over in that regard. But for it’s own niche use case from years back it was clearly the better product.
Can I get an indefinitely fully-functional trial version of the bag first?
As someone who actually paid for WinRAR, will I get a free bag?
Also, does it count if “I” paid for it on the company card
I paid it.
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?
Opensource software is free most of the time. It doesn’t prevent people from paying for it, too.
WinRAR does a job, you need it, you can pay for it, you pay for it. Not everything is about racking the maximum amount of money while avoiding every single expense, no matter how petty. These days there’s certainly competition, but you should remember that it’s been around for a long time.
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.
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.
