Paying for winrar

[minibois]

Nah man, I'm all about that FOSS software and not particularly the freemium model WinRAR has. 7zip is much more logical.

[Taja]

I use winrar since forever, and never payed. I thought about paying it, because the pop up is always annoying  and well, they deserved the money... but then I saw the prices, and boy, no way. if it was a one time only purchase, fine... but it is like a subscription? wtf? and converting to my currency, it would be an absurd value.

 

Classic strategy of making the stuff "free" but charging high prices if you want to use on a professional environment...

[dalekphalm]

3 hours ago, billstelling said:

Winrar is good and has been forever. I paid for it just because of it's longevity and not to have to see the popup when I use it since It's my go to.. I never did like 7zip, too commercial as well as a bit bloated for my tastes..

Too commercial and bloated?

 

How is 7zip too commercial? You install it and then it never ever asks you about money.

 

Also, the main client is (imho) less bloated than that of WinRAR, and I think I've only opened the client literally a handful of times, ever.

 

I only ever interact with 7zip through the context menu (right click), where you can do all the main things you'd typically do, such as create new zip file, or extract an existing zip file (including extract "here", extract to "here/zipfilename", and extract to target location).

[dizmo]

I've always wondered how many people actually buy it, if to just get rid of the stupid pop up every time you use it.

I imagine they had a lot more sales years ago when there was more things that required unpacking. I think I've only used it 2 or 3 times in the past few years, and those were for game mods.

 

1 hour ago, Keystone Nyan Cat said:

7-zip; why use anything else?

 

Edit- sorry for this low-quality post; I'd usually type more, but I think the post is pretty much self-explanatory to anyone familiar with 7-zip

Quantity doesn't equal quality

1 hour ago, RollinLower said:

been using winrar for years, but finally bought it a few months back. it;s a very nice program, and i feel like they definitely deserved the cash

 

Do you get anything for paying for it? Extra features? Or does it just get rid of that pop up?

1 hour ago, imreloadin said:

You've never used DDU when doing clean installs of display drivers? Then you sir are doing it wrong

What reason would one have for uninstalling display drivers?

29 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

7zip, it's free and is a much superior software to WinRAR in terms of compression power.

 

The only ones who would still use WinRAR today, are either those who are unaware of the better free alternative out there or are just too stubborn to use anything else.

Or those that are lazy Don't forget about us!

I forgot to add it to Ninite when I was installing all of my apps, and I use it so infrequently I just can't be bothered.

[imreloadin]

2 minutes ago, dizmo said:

What reason would one have for uninstalling display drivers?

It's not like anyone ever needs to update them due to getting a newly released game or a new GPU...who does that amiright?

[dizmo]

10 minutes ago, imreloadin said:

It's not like anyone ever needs to update them due to getting a newly released game or a new GPU...who does that amiright?

Isn't that what the update tool is for

[imreloadin]

2 minutes ago, dizmo said:

Isn't that what the update tool is for

Yeah because you can just update from AMD to nVidia or vice versa

Literally the first thing everyone suggests when someone has an issue with a new GPU or after installing a new driver version is to uninstall the previous drivers with DDU and then to reinstall them...have you never been in the GPU section lol?

[dalekphalm]

8 hours ago, imreloadin said:

It's not like anyone ever needs to update them due to getting a newly released game or a new GPU...who does that amiright?

 

8 hours ago, imreloadin said:

Yeah because you can just update from AMD to nVidia or vice versa

Literally the first thing everyone suggests when someone has an issue with a new GPU or after installing a new driver version is to uninstall the previous drivers with DDU and then to reinstall them...have you never been in the GPU section lol?

1. Updating your GPU drivers to the newest version is typically a very quick and painless process. You should not need DDU to perform this relatively mundane task, unless there's something wrong with your install or system. Sure, this can happen, but this is not the norm.

2. Purchasing a new GPU is also not a very frequent thing. Furthermore, simply using the uninstallation function of your existing display driver software should be sufficient in all but the most rare cases. Again, sure, occasionally this can be an issue, but it is not the norm. Furthermore, using the first party driver uninstallation tools are usually sufficient.

 

Not saying there's anything wrong with using DDU. Many people like it, and occasionally it can indeed solve problems.

 

It is, however, certainly not necessary the vast majority of the time. Performing a simple driver update or brand switch (uninstall + install new competing driver) typically does not require this program.