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7zip is better anyway I don't understand why people still use WinRar. Then again I don't understand why people still use Windows either.
I'm glad you can have a Windows-free existence.
Some things just don't function well on Linux, but there are lots of us who are 99% Linux and don't use Windows unless we have to.
I have to use a windows box when I initiate my Reolink security cameras as an example. Haven’t been about to figure out a way to do the initial setup on them without and I couldn’t get it to run on Linux. Honestly been less of a time consuming pain to just have a windows box with the software. It’s only plugged into the isolated LAN anyway so whatever.
Like what exactly ?
My 3080ti graphics card. To my knowledge, NVIDIA drivers are still a mess on Linux, and any suggestion to "just switch to AMD" is neither helpful nor appreciated; as if dropping $500+ for a new graphics card when my current one works perfectly fine is in ANY way a valid solution.
I got a 3060 which works fine i guess the 3080 should too
Nvidia drivers and gaming compatibility have grown leaps in the last year. I'm using dual monitors on a 2070m in a laptop, one of the historically most incompatible setups. I installed cachyos and was able to simply install the OS and start playing my entire steam library. All without any modification. I play plenty of modern games. I don't have any AAA FPS with anticheat though, which I hear don't work at all.
Nvidia works fine on Linux. I have an nvidia card at home, and I support a bunch of them at work. It's easy. https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/driver-installation-guide/latest/index.html
Use the network installation to add the deb or rpm repo, then choose whether you want the open or proprietary drivers. Install the package and that's it, your package manager will handle the dependencies.
You may need to create and enroll a dkms key if you have secureboot enabled and you haven't done that already, but that's the only wrinkle.
CAD softwares, Tally, any Autodesk tools, Adobe software not counting specifically made business softwares years ago. I couldn't get Office running with wine ever.
For me personally about 30% of my video game library, which don't function even with the various compatibility tools.
But when I started my YouTube channel I was using Openshot, which does not work on Linux, or at least it didn't for me. My old Lenovo Legion was largely incompatible with Linux too, as I tried a dual-boot with two different distros and still had to debug it all the time. (Thankfully not a problem on the Acer that replaced it.)
Linux is great, but it's not yet compatible with everything.
Autocad
Deleted Windows from every computer I ever owned.
Then because of a certain chain of events came the time to look into working from home. Boy oh boy, I guess it depends on the type of work you do but for what I'm qualified for they absolutely do not vibe with anything except Windows. I couldn't even find many that would at least let you use Mac.
I begrudgingly installed Windows 11 on my machine again the other day for this very reason. I'll still dual boot of course but man, I'm really not happy about it.
Also, Windows are complete dicks about letting you make a bootable windows USB gotta either use apps not in your distro directory or use another Windows computer to make one. Wtf is that shit about? And I had to spend like 2 hours making windows suck less.
It reminds me of how apps are starting to treat me for using Graphene OS
I just found woeusb the other day, if you need to make a windows USB from Linux in the future.
Nanazip is the preferred Windows tool.
Not everything is a competition. If people want to support WinRAR after the developer maintained it for more than 30 years and helped out millions of people, that's just fine.
If i fill bottles with tap water and try to sell it to my neighbours then anyone still "supporting" me after 30 years is an idiot.
Bottles, time to bottle, and distribution are worth compensation
You're right and if people are demanding your bottles then that means it is valuable at least to those people.
Also this is how water bottle companies actually do stuff the store brands in USA of Purified water almost always say they're from a public water supply.
I use it on occasion, since it will deflate 100+GB zip files much faster than 7zip will. (7z is single threaded for pkzips)
It's been more than a decade since I used it to compress anything though. LZMA2 rocks.
How does multithreading improve the performance of an unzip operation? I would think the opposite, given the context switching and (abstracted) low level drive writes.
It's heavily CPU bound in a normal system today. Extracting (let alone compressing) a 2 GB file will take a noticeable amount of time. Reading the whole thing from an nvme will take roughly 1 second. Random access is no longer a relevant performance impact either.
It is my understanding that multithreaded extraction is hard(er) cause the used dictionary is built up incrementally. So to extract later parts you need to have extracted earlier parts.
Or WinZip. I work for a company that literally has the licenses for every computer they own. Why? 7-zip is free.
Winzip, i think, is owned by Corel I think. Almost as evil as Adobe. In India over here a lot of small businesses use it and it is unaffordable for them to get such creative suites. Corel constantly sends notices to the ones using cracked copies and force them to buy it for 3 years to avoid legal damages.
I could think of stronger password protection options. Maybe some kind of UI. Maybe a way to certify creators of the zip so they can filter out malicious zips in emails. I dont know what WinZip offers but company compliance is a goldmine.
Yup. The ability or willingness of a software maker to remove or agree to an indemnification clause is sometimes of paramount importance for some organizations.
It’s sank more than a few promising projects at my org.