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?
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.
Superior to 7Z?
I’m not especially informed about this, but wasn’t 7Z better than any other alternative? I’ve seen some benchmarks and, while WinRar beats every Windows implementation of Zip files, 7Z is always faster and compresses more. Also, the 7Z file format is way more advanced than Zip, Rar or Tar, and it allows many forms of post-quantum encryption.
Maybe there’s something I’m missing?
I’ve downloaded the occasional weird archive that refused to unpack with 7z, but worked just fine with winrar. Very rare cases though, but that’s why i kept it installed about 2 years ago. since switching to linux i haven’t encountered a file like that, so i haven’t needed it since then.