What, are you going to tell me to register WinRAR next :michael-laugh:

  • riley
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    1 year ago

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    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I don't think I've used Winrar in at least 10 years after I learned there was another free unarchiver that didn't nag about 40-day trial periods :shrug-outta-hecks:

      Coincidentally, LGR did a bunch of videos on the experience of registering WinRAR, touching on its history:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7W6hv4kcvg

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoclTVcjkXE

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxsli37jj0I

        • blobjim [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Linux really is far better at anything utility related, obviously. It really surpised me how good some of the GNOME tools are. Like Evince for PDFs. On Windows you have to use Adobe or a browser, because that's Good Enough™ for enterprise use cases so nobody bothered making an actually good one. And nobody is gonna pay for some weird proprietary PDF reader. Many such examples.

          • RION [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            I use SumatraPDF on Windows - FOSS w/ broad support for documents and ebook files, very :isaac-pog:

          • kristina [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            but if you wanna run anything super heavy duty or niche expect to be disappointed :sadness:

            • blobjim [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              Or you want to not have to use a terminal to do some basic thing that Windows provides an ugly but useful GUI for. It's kinda funny that Linux is such a widely used OS, but only for server stuff, which is largely proprietary, company-specific software that the average person wouldn't use.

              • Owl [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                You have to be pretty picky to actually end up needing a terminal on Ubuntu these days.

                But all the tech support articles you'll find online will always tell you to use a terminal of course. Because telling someone to run 'sudo apt install sl && sl -lF' or whatever is easier than uploading twenty screenshots of menus.

              • kristina [she/her]
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                3 years ago

                yeah the lack of guis really needs to be handled before it becomes mainstream. ive been watching it earnest mostly cause i hate microsoft and some of the stuff kde is doing is looking pretty good. hopefully theyll be able to skin some stuff up in time

          • cawsby [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            With Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is there any utility you are missing on Windows?

            https://ubuntu.com/wsl

    • Neckbeard_Prime [they/them,he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It does; it's just pretty basic (no volume splitting, only supports one compression algorithm, no settings for compression level, etc.), although it does support browsing archive contents as if they were a regular folder. Unless you hit a nested archive; then all bets are off. I'm not even sure if there's a way to password-protect a Zip file from the built-in Windows archiver. It's fine for plain Zip archives, though.