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You managed to bring me over to the dark side.  I used to love winrar. Now I prefer 7-Zip. |
And why is that, giving the fact that their interface works equal?
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I believe zopfli can do some really neat things with compression.  |
At the cost of a processing time 81 times longer, as far as I read... I didn't know zopfli but I see Google does not advise it as a general use compression method. However, what one prefers is really a matter of tastes, and charachteristics he values the most.
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I simply don't care, because 7-Zip is free, and works very well.
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Of course. Being free is an advantage, if the rest is acceptable. Not to say that paying a developer for its work is bad, if his work is what we prefer, on the other hand.
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Not as well integrated maybe. I still find it faster than messing around with Explorer.
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Oh, but I don't. Nothing I can stand less. I use Total Commander, Windows version of glorious midnight commander. Yes, it's payware, but it's worth every dime, and has verious tools available, to use which I don't have to lift fingers from the keyboard, just like cygwin. But I see your point: if you do extensive work all on Unix, using cygwin on Windows has its advantages for sure.
I'm thinking what I could write about that is even more off topic, but nothing comes to my mind, so I will stop here.