What is your favorite open source software?
What is your favorite open source software?
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My favorites based on usage:
- 7Zip. It's clean and has a lot of convenient features.
- Bitwarden. I have too many accounts these days. It's a life saver and it's on all my devices!
- Rufus Formatting tool. This rules. It's great for just formatting or creating a bootable USB. Not to mention it's portable so I can bring it with me to work.
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Genuine question because I've used winrar forever. Why 7zip over winrar?
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Do people really still use WinRar? I thought that was a relic of the old internet.
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WinRAR is simply obsoleted by 7zip. Or does everything WinRAR does and more. In my case, I particularly use their context menu shortcut for checking sha256 file hash
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They can all serve the same purpose. The advantages of 7zip are the following:
- It is totally free (as both in free beer and free speach)
- The 7z compression format is superior to rar because it can compress either more or faster (not both though)
- The rar format is proprietary. You are free to decompress but not to compress. In a business setting, you could theoretically get in trouble if you don't have a license. In some countries, e.g. USA, even outside a business setting. But if you have been using winrar forever, I can't see you changing your ways anytime soon! :)
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I have used 7zip on a work computer or something, but it was quite a while ago. I mainly use winrar on my personal computers to decompress files. I may check out 7zip sometime, it may be nice to get rid of that pop up lol.
Thanks!
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You don't have to pay for the license /s
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