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Why not? I prefer it over 7-Zip because it has built-in parity both in the archive itself and as separate files. You can achieve the latter with 7-Zip using PAR, but it’s just more convenient to have it built-in for both parity creation and recovery.

I also feel like it’s consuming a lot less RAM while compressing at similar speeds and achieving similar, if not sometimes better (RAR5), results.

Just because it had a zero-day bug that has already been fixed doesn’t mean it’s bad software. I wouldn’t be surprised if zero-days came to light in other archival software. 7-Zip isn’t magically immune to this.

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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I don’t get why someone would prefer rar over zip and 7z.
Even tar.gz and all their flavors are more common.

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- pascal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah, well technically .cab is more common than tar.gz but that doesn’t mean I’d start using it.
  
  I personally use RAR because I think it’s a better format than ZIP, but I use ZIP when I have to share the archive with anyone.
  
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  - youstolemyname@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    How does it compare to 7z though?
    
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    pascal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    According to this benchmark, 7z compresses more.
    
    …github.io/peazip-compression-benchmark.html
    
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vanontom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
WinRAR also has clever password and encryption features. (Set short master password, quickly encrypt/decrypt any saved very long passwords.) Integration is great. Updates are regular. I only wish the UI would be updated a bit (more than just icon packs, dark mode).

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