Thanks for reminding me. I was still on 10.4. A shame this isn't in the Fedora repositories, it's nice to have GUI alternatives to Ark as that isn't exactly perfect.

[–] skaffi@infosec.pub 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Indeed, though as lacking as Ark is, I still think it's better than PeaZip, which has just about the messiest GUI I've seen in a long while, with far too much redundancy, and annoying quirks.

I really liked the GUI of WinRar, but I no longer consider proprietary software to be an option. 7-Zip's GUI was pretty okay, but the "Linux port" of that is so incomplete that it feels more like a prop than a programme. The only part that works well is it's archive creation menu, which I can access through the context menu. But the equivalent in Ark is about on par.

I am still pining for a Qt GUI compression/extraction killer app, that feels fully featured and able to handle it all. As it is, I keep three different ones installed, to meet my needs and mostly satisfy my workflow.

[–] RedSnt 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I really liked the GUI of WinRar, but I no longer consider proprietary software to be an option.

Yeah, I don't know about WinRar either, and I even bought a license back in 2010, so I guess I shouldn't feel bad for using it, it's just that I want to support FOSS more these days.

I am still pining for a Qt GUI compression/extraction killer app, that feels fully featured and able to handle it all. As it is, I keep three different ones installed, to meet my needs and mostly satisfy my workflow.

I believe Ark isn't happy extracting a lot of r01, r02 etc. files or maybe it was passworded filed it struggled with, but that's why I found PeaZip to begin with.