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by sidewndr46 341 days ago
If you're expecting a "mobile first" or similar GUI where most of the screen is dedicated to whitespace, basic features involves 7 or more mouse clicks and for some reason it all gets changed every ~6 months then yes the 7zip GUI is terrible.

Desktop software usability peaked sometime in the late 90s, early 2000s. There's a reason why 7zip still looks like ~2004
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wmil 341 days ago
When compared to it's contemporaries the 7-zip GUI is noticeably worse. Back in 2004 WinRar and WinZip were both clearly superior.
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birksherty 340 days ago
Not sure what those gui improvments in winrar is. I prefer 7zip over all those for gui too.
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jorvi 340 days ago
You could have taken the 10 seconds to type in "PeaZip GUI" and seen that it is not a mobile interface and it is indeed much nicer than the 7-Zip interface.

Instead you chose to make a useless snarky comment. Be better.

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