Re:7-Zip for Linux
by auganov on Thursday March 11, 2021 @04:33PM
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Never compared archivers at length, cannot speak as to the actual features. But 7z has this distinct unfinished open-source GUI tool look. That's all I remember about it. It may or may not be true that it has poor UX. But the aesthetics certainly do signal this. Personally, on Windows I used 360压缩 which seems to be a better looking winrar clone without nag screens. On Linux it's "atool -x" for extracting (there's no decent Linux file explorer, so the main selling point of archiver guis is moot too).
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> there's no decent Linux file explorer
Dolphin, PCManFM, and MC would all like a word with you.
Also, 7Zip is no harder to use than the built-in Windows zip extractor if you use the context menu.
Thunar, will also want to have a say
Re:7-Zip for Linux
by ZoomZoomZoom on Thursday March 11, 2021 @06:42PM
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> there's no decent Linux file explorer
There's Double Commander, which also works great on Windows and beats sibling-mentioned Dolphin and even PCManFM hands down.
There's also Ranger and nnn, if you need a CLI and don't want an orthodox file manager.
Re:7-Zip for Linux
by subsection1h on Thursday March 11, 2021 @06:33PM
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> there's no decent Linux file explorer
If this is true (and I wouldn't know because I haven't had a GUI file manager on my Linux desktop since the early 2000s), it's because GUI file managers are for casuals.