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amiga386today at 8:30 AM1 replyview on HN

They're one of the few companies that actually manage to sell "boxed software" (i.e. has not changed much in years but new customers keep buying it)

That said, Windows users should use 7-Zip. Better compression format, unpacks more kinds of archives


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xxstoday at 9:05 AM

> Windows users should use 7-Zip

Please no - no native zstd support. NanaZip is the better option (it's a different build of 7-zip) and it's available at windows store.

> Better compression format, unpacks more kinds of archives

winrar has supported zstd for 5 years[0]

In short - Everyone should be using zstd, and 7-zip does not support it.

[0]: https://www.win-rar.com/singlenewsview.html?&L=0&tx_ttnews%5...

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