What, are you going to tell me to register WinRAR next :michael-laugh:
I don't think I've used Winrar in at least 10 years after I learned there was another free unarchiver that didn't nag about 40-day trial periods :shrug-outta-hecks:
Coincidentally, LGR did a bunch of videos on the experience of registering WinRAR, touching on its history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7W6hv4kcvg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoclTVcjkXE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxsli37jj0I
any leftist born after 1993 cant download winzip, all they know is app store, eat hot bean and lie
Now I really want to see the little unzipping animation with the file cabinet and flying pages, but I can't find it. I know the standard Windows 95/98 file copy dialog looks about the same, but still. Guess I'll tide myself over with the old Internet Explorer download animation. Reminds me of downloading demos of Worms games from the Team 17 website.
Doesn't windows just come with a zip extracting function now anyway?
Linux really is far better at anything utility related, obviously. It really surpised me how good some of the GNOME tools are. Like Evince for PDFs. On Windows you have to use Adobe or a browser, because that's Good Enough™ for enterprise use cases so nobody bothered making an actually good one. And nobody is gonna pay for some weird proprietary PDF reader. Many such examples.
I use SumatraPDF on Windows - FOSS w/ broad support for documents and ebook files, very :isaac-pog:
but if you wanna run anything super heavy duty or niche expect to be disappointed :sadness:
Or you want to not have to use a terminal to do some basic thing that Windows provides an ugly but useful GUI for. It's kinda funny that Linux is such a widely used OS, but only for server stuff, which is largely proprietary, company-specific software that the average person wouldn't use.
You have to be pretty picky to actually end up needing a terminal on Ubuntu these days.
But all the tech support articles you'll find online will always tell you to use a terminal of course. Because telling someone to run 'sudo apt install sl && sl -lF' or whatever is easier than uploading twenty screenshots of menus.
yeah the lack of guis really needs to be handled before it becomes mainstream. ive been watching it earnest mostly cause i hate microsoft and some of the stuff kde is doing is looking pretty good. hopefully theyll be able to skin some stuff up in time
Okular and Calibre cover all of my document reading needs. Good shit.
With Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is there any utility you are missing on Windows?
https://ubuntu.com/wsl
It does; it's just pretty basic (no volume splitting, only supports one compression algorithm, no settings for compression level, etc.), although it does support browsing archive contents as if they were a regular folder. Unless you hit a nested archive; then all bets are off. I'm not even sure if there's a way to password-protect a Zip file from the built-in Windows archiver. It's fine for plain Zip archives, though.
