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.
I bought it decades ago, but lost my product key. 😞
For that price, does it compress anything you put in the bag?
Yeah that’s called a bag of holding and it would be worth 1000x that. Hell I’d probably save up all my Pennie’s for that.
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.
As someone who actually paid for WinRAR, will I get a free bag?
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.
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.
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.
Also, does it count if “I” paid for it on the company card
I paid it.
The answer to that question: “by never buying a WinRAR bag?”
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.
tar -xfvz
-f needs to be the last argument here as it expects the file name correctly after
Can I get an indefinitely fully-functional trial version of the bag first?
Tarrrrrr… Gz
People are making fun of it in the comments, but i ordered one on restock day and I’m excited!
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?
Probably 10-15 years ago or something
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.
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
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?
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/
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.
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Does 7-zip have a bag though?
If it did I might consider buying it.
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.
I would honestly buy one if it wasn’t $150. That’s so much.
Ironically so is the price of WinRaR licence when free, better alternatives exist.
WinRAR was the saviour of every inexperienced Minecraft mod enthusiast, though
7zip all the way, especially back then!
Back when winrar existed and 7-zip didn’t?
Back when Minecraft existed and both archive tools had been established software for at least 9 years?
The whole site has similar prices… those sweaters are cool but not $250 cool
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.
