With Windows 11 now having support for 7z/rar/etc built-in I'd be inclined to just default to using that if it covers your use-cases.
With Windows 11 now having support for 7z/rar/etc built-in I'd be inclined to just default to using that if it covers your use-cases.
Does Microsoft have to pay a license for being able to support RAR or are they now effectively putting winrar out of business?
Not sure how that will affect winrar in the long term. Of course people now aren't forced to download software to open rar files. But it also makes it much more viable to send .rar files to random people. And actual Winrar still offers you a lot of features that Windows doesn't have and seems to be a lot faster, so there are still plenty of reasons for power users to use it.
Personally I own a winrar license primarily for its features when creating archives, and Windows isn't encroaching on that.
https://twitter.com/WinRAR_RARLAB/status/1663493174642323457
I hope Microsoft is keeping bsdtar/libarchive up to date. IIRC they weren't.