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What is your favorite open source software?
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My favorites based on usage:
7Zip. It's clean and has a lot of convenient features.
Bitwarden. I have too many accounts these days. It's a life saver and it's on all my devices!
Rufus Formatting tool. This rules. It's great for just formatting or creating a bootable USB. Not to mention it's portable so I can bring it with me to work.
Genuine question because I've used winrar forever. Why 7zip over winrar?
Do people really still use WinRar? I thought that was a relic of the old internet.
WinRAR is simply obsoleted by 7zip. Or does everything WinRAR does and more. In my case, I particularly use their context menu shortcut for checking sha256 file hash
They can all serve the same purpose. The advantages of 7zip are the following:
I have used 7zip on a work computer or something, but it was quite a while ago. I mainly use winrar on my personal computers to decompress files. I may check out 7zip sometime, it may be nice to get rid of that pop up lol.
Thanks!
You don't have to pay for the license /s