Cons of 7zip:
- Only works on Windows
- 1 in 10 times you pack or unpack something it corrupts
- Can't view Text Documents or Images without unpacking everything
- Only unpacks zip and 7z Files
- The User Interface is total crap and confusing to a new user
- Devs have said they plan to move to a pay-for model someday as only option
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Err, sorry but it's not quite right.
- It does work on other system (on linux "sudo apt-get install p7zip" and you are good to go)
- It does not corrupt anything, it's more like there is less place reserved for ECC, so if the file is corrupted (by a bad connection for example), a RAR archive have better survivability chance than a 7zip one. Still, most corruptions will break the RAR archive too, so most people prefer the 7zip economical settings (which can be changed by configuration in 7zip).
- It depends of the software you use for viewing compressed file, Notepad is OK for example, but the photo viewer of Win10 is not...
- You can unpack all the archive types and compression algorithms. Gzip, RAR... I never found anything that may miss, and at least it supports all of those that WinRAR support.
- The UI isn't worse than WinRAR, and I would say the new manager added in version 16.x may be better.
- Whatever the dev say, the software is open source, so anyone can fork it if necessary (unlike winRAR which could disappears suddenly). Still, the dev provides a good support, when you got a bug in a new version he usually provide a fix or a work-around in less than a day, and help with scripts when you try to do crazy things with his tool (because it's way more powerfull than winRAR you can tweak it to your specific workset). Calling this "questionable" seems off to me.
Maybe the version you tried didn't worked well, I think you should give it a new chance ;) That said, thanks for your great mod!