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If you have .7z files associated with 7z File Manager, it will open on double click. Is that not the default on installation?
It is the default. It's always worked for me just fine.
I'll take a look at my setup when I get home tonight.
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RAR has some unique built-in characteristics like recovery record (useful when archiving on optical discs, or any other media which can degrade in time) and recovery volumes (which was a life-saver feature in the age of floppy disks).
Just what I was going to ask about. I thought WinRAR had the option to include parity checks / redundancy within the data. BTW, is there a current... "turnkey" (simple, "clicky"), I guess, *NIX solution for doing that within an archive?
And it's opensource.
7zip has strong encryption built in. I found it to be the only very useful x-platform (using Keka on OSX) option when you non-power-users to encrypt some files with a passphrase (symmetric encryption). And it's opensource.
So I checked my current version... And Ubuntu 16.10 ships version 9.20, which is from 2010.
Yay.
Edit: On further inspection, downloading the source from sourceforge and building it locally was a matter of minutes though. But that feels so utterly un-Ubuntu-ish.
Looking at the changelog, I was amazed at how many disk-image formats 7zip supported and I newer knew. Especially the amount added recent months seemed impressive. So I checked my current version... And Ubuntu 16.10 ships version 9.20, which is from 2010. Yay. Edit: On further inspection, downloading the source from sourceforge and building it locally was a matter of minutes though. But that feels so utterly un-Ubunt…
The changelog is sparse, but Igor has some comments on the release on Sourceforge. http://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/6c...
7zip has strong encryption built in. I found it to be the only very useful x-platform (using Keka on OSX) option when you non-power-users to encrypt some files with a passphrase (symmetric encryption). And it's opensource.
Is + GPG really a big deal?
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It is the default. It's always worked for me just fine.
You are so lucky. I've installed on every Windows machine I've had for years and have never had it work out of the box. I've got to right-click a .7z and choose open with -> 7zip. I'll take a look at my setup when I get home tonight.