If I used windows, I would totally do this…
I must be rich, I have 2 licenses.
Once I found 7zip, WinRAR was obsolete. Lately though I’ve just been using the built in extractor in Linux because it works just fine.
Every linux archive manager is better than windows crap.
- mark multiple zips and extract, they all extract. Windows doesnt do that, it extracts one
- fuck “open in new window” windows that is horrible UI and only works well on tiling window managers lol
- allows to use ANY archive format
- allows to extract and delete in one go, the most commonly used action
It really is amazing that even the worst linux ones are better than like everything on windows. I find fileroller so much more annoying than Ark, but if someone ported fileroller to windows it would probably be the best thing available by a huge margin
Okay I wanted to mention that there was pretty much no explorer alternative. But there is QTTabbar and Clover are a thing, and there are tons of other tools.
I think just nothing “looking like an improvement over explorer” on alternativeto.net
Overall, I dont know, Windows 10 was so ugly?? All those rectangles, the white theme, just ugly?
Or use 7zip like any sane person
on windows I use peazip because I can right click context menu > extract to smart new folder - does 7zip do that? if so I’d switch back
Depending on what you mean with “smart”, when I used Windows 7zip also offered to extract into a new folder through a context menu
In this context (IIRC) smart means “if this zip contains a single folder with contents, directly extract that folder, but if the zip contains files and/or folders, extract all that to a new folder named the same as the zip file”.
Some people zip folders while some people zip the files in a folder. Smart extraction just handles both automatically.
I’d buy winrar just because it has served me very well and all for free, for at least a decade even if I use mostly 7zip now. They earned that license fee
Does WinRAR actually still exist? Is it in active development?
I am in this picture (but I didn’t win the lottery 😢)
