I always used winrar because that's just what I had, idk what's better

7z

7zip is free and does what like 99% of people need - compress and extract, unless winrar has some feature you need there's no reason to bother with it

I don't know, I've never used 7-zip except maybe once when I might have had to open a filetype WinRAR doesn't support. I use WinRAR, but it's just out of habit. It's what I've always used. It would probably be better if I used 7-zip just because WinRAR has a pop-up window I have to shut first every time I use it since I haven't paid for it.

bzip2?

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