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WinRaR has begged me for money for years
Why use winrar when 7zip and peazip are right there?
While I was still on Windows, the killer feature that kept WinRar installed, instead of only using 7zip, was the simple fact that its file explorer supported hotkeys like Ctrl+C, and that you could seamlessly copy files to and from Windows' file explorer.
I'm pretty sure PeaZip supports these as well
PeaZip is nice. I don't use 7zip because it looks and feels ancient. Both are open source and better than WinRAR though.
Well, you do in theory need a license to use winrar for more than 30 days