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by kalleboo 1006 days ago
The only time I've used RAR is for Usenet downloads where there are also PAR files to repair any missing segments. And that was a decade ago.

Saving 25% compression vs zip/gzip on your 500 MB of code/text files doesn't matter anymore in 2023, all the files we really want to compress are already compressed (media files)