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Winning the lottery (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If I used windows, I would totally do this....

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[–] [email protected] 171 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Or use 7zip like any sane person

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago

But still buy winRAR for the meme

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Better donate to 7zip lol

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If I win the lottery they both get some.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Sharing means less for 7zip, not approved

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

And donate a ton of money

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I dont know what a smart folder is.
But you can extract to ./[archive name]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Depending on what you mean with "smart", when I used Windows 7zip also offered to extract into a new folder through a context menu

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Seems to. MB3 and you have Extract which does a folder name and places them in that, or Extract Here which puts all the files in your current directory

[–] stufkes 1 points 10 months ago

7zip doesn't work well with win11. Read somewhere that the developer refuses to do something about it, but no idea. Went with nanazip, which is derived from 7zip

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Software pirates still love it for some reason. You'd think they'd use non-proprietary archival programs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

recovery records are an essential feature for.... uh.... certain 'distribution methods' about which we are forbidden to speak of.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Or gzip like the sane linux person

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

or unzip your files just the normal way? why do you need a program?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does "the normal way" support anything other that zip and rar?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

well I've never encountered anything like that so...