What does HackerNews think of NanaZip?

The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience

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WinRAR sold 5,449 licenses in a day | Sep 2023

And on the Windows side of things, there's NanaZip https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip which gives 7-zip better integration with W11 context menus, and a better file manager UI

Seven.zip | May 2023

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Although potentially missing the point of the original submission: https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip

imo better integration with Win 10/11 context menus and more compression codecs

Windows 11 x64 security hardening guide | Aug 2022

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I haven’t use it, but this fork of 7zip claims to have added some security features including Control Flow Guard and Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) Shadow Stack: https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip

7-zip 22.00 – APFS, Posix TAR, high precision timestamps | Jun 2022

It would be nice if 7-zip added support for the new Windows 11 context menu. It requires that each context item is registered to an application and gets removed when the app is uninstalled, instead of the current free-for-all. [1] There's a fork, NanaZip, that adds this and a few more features, although the way it's structured makes it a non-trivial patch. [2]

[1] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/07/19/extend... [2] https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip

Don't Use RAR | Feb 2022

Ive been a user of 7-zip for years. I've recently switched to NanaZip which is a fork which works with windows 11 new context menu and adds in some other niceties. https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip