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> PeaZip has a very clean UI, and nice green icons, so it’s very obviously the better choice. If you're "opening" an archive directly you're doing it wrong. Th
by sam0x17 6y ago
> PeaZip has a very clean UI, and nice green icons, so it’s very obviously the better choice.
If you're "opening" an archive directly you're doing it wrong. The beauty of 7-Zip is the shell integration where you can just right click an archive and do "Extract to [folder name]" or right click a folder and do "Create archive...". I have not had a need for the UI that appears when you double click on an archive in any archive program in 20 years.
- Symbiote 6y agoI use the archive tool in KDE ("ark") fairly often, although only for reading. I regularly need to look at one or two metadata files within an archive, but not the gigabytes of data. On the command line, I'll "unzip -p archive.zip metadata.xml" (with tab-completion for the archive entries), but if I've retrieved the file with a web browser I'll let it open in ark and open the entry files from there.
- smlckz 6y agoSame with Vim for Windows. Right click and edit using gvim, regardless of the file type.
- timw4mail 6y agoPeaZip also has similar functionality.
- jbarrs 6y agoMy only gripe with this is that I'm never sure what the structure inside an archive is like until I inspect it. It's not a massive inconvenience but I don't like extracting to a new directory just to find it empty save for another directory with the same name.