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7z and RAR files will work in standard programs like File Roller, but you’ll have to install the appropriate command-line utilities from your package manager first.
Hard as it might be to believe, performance gets even worse with other compression formats. For example, WinZip takes 36 seconds to compress our benchmark files and folders into a ZIP file with default settings and Hyper-Threading disabled. And when we say very slowly, we mean very slowly.
Sure, it can compress files and folders, but it does so very slowly. Unfortunately, this appears to be MagicRAR’s only advantage. MagicRAR’s plug-in architecture is very useful for this, because new compression formats can be added on the fly. Buying MagicRAR only makes sense if you regularly encounter uncommon archive formats.