If I used windows, I would totally do this…
Or use 7zip like any sane person
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
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
Depending on what you mean with “smart”, when I used Windows 7zip also offered to extract into a new folder through a context menu
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.
Software pirates still love it for some reason. You’d think they’d use non-proprietary archival programs.
If you don’t want to spend as much time waiting for things to uncompress. Or if you want your compressed files to be smaller (and also compress faster).
Once I found 7zip, WinRAR was obsolete. Lately though I’ve just been using the built in extractor in Linux because it works just fine.
Every linux archive manager is better than windows crap.
- mark multiple zips and extract, they all extract. Windows doesnt do that, it extracts one
- fuck “open in new window” windows that is horrible UI and only works well on tiling window managers lol
- allows to use ANY archive format
- allows to extract and delete in one go, the most commonly used action
It really is amazing that even the worst linux ones are better than like everything on windows. I find fileroller so much more annoying than Ark, but if someone ported fileroller to windows it would probably be the best thing available by a huge margin
Okay I wanted to mention that there was pretty much no explorer alternative. But there is QTTabbar and Clover are a thing, and there are tons of other tools.
I think just nothing “looking like an improvement over explorer” on alternativeto.net
Overall, I dont know, Windows 10 was so ugly?? All those rectangles, the white theme, just ugly?
Why would I waste money on winRAR when 7zip is open source and free right there?
7zip is just so far superior in every way, it’s crazy people use anything else imo.
It’s really sad honestly, there’s so many alternatives to WinRAR and no one dares uses them.
Because winrar let’s you use it for free, it’s basically the best tactic to let your software stick.
I’d probably try to keep a lottery win quiet. I don’t want relatives I don’t like crawling out of the woodwork clamoring for my money.
I mean, I wouldn’t give them any regardless, but I just don’t want that hassle.
If I won the lottery, someone would notice something seriously wrong when they see someone who was previously poor buying brand new motorcycles, a sports car, a house, and donating a crazy amount of money to open source.
For me, I’d be paying off the mortgage and buying new IT gear for my home, and setting myself up with passive income so I don’t need a job anymore.
If it was enough of a win, I may buy a new property and rebuild my house on it… Making a few small additions and renovations along the way. Stuff we already want to do, but don’t have the money for… The only big benefit would be that the house would be built on quite a bit more land than my current home. The lack of land was one of the things I wanted that I had to give up because of the other requirements we had, so being able to get what we have (which we need) and a bit more land would be perfect. Sell this old house and move into the new one.
Beyond that, any money I have left over would probably be spent to pay off friends debts and mortgages… One friend is still renting. He’s in a great place and his current rent is well below the average for his area, but the land owner is an older lady, and I would want to ensure he has the same security for a place to live as I have. I’d probably try to buy the place from the lady at market cost, and she can stay renting there as long as she likes, at very low rent, just as she has afforded to my friend for all this time.
When she decides to depart, instead of renting the place again, I’d renovate it, and gift the whole house to my friend. He would go from occupying a small basement apartment to owning the whole house. From there he can either take over the whole home, or rent out the upstairs and keep things as they are. It’s up to him.
I have a few other ideas but I haven’t even played the lottery in a long while.
Only if you continued to live in the same place.
I would lay down a good false trail. For the 6 months it’d take me to quietly setup trusts and discreetly get the money. I’d be telling everyone and convincing them I’d gone full on prepper and was moving to Montana and prepper compound there. My “new” car would be from the 70’s so it’d work after the EMP blasts. Stuff like that.
One day I’m gone and they’d be like that crazy guy did it…
7z better
On Windows, NanaZip is even better. It’s a fork of 7zip focused on performance and UI improvements.
