File Roller vs Ark
When comparing File Roller vs Ark, the Slant community recommends File Roller for most people. In the question“What are the best archivers on Linux?” File Roller is ranked 3rd while Ark is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose File Roller is:
File-roller is the official gnome archive manager and used in other desktop environments too. The large user-base and active development have made it stable.
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Pros
Pro Well supported
File-roller is the official gnome archive manager and used in other desktop environments too. The large user-base and active development have made it stable.
Pro Fast and light
light on resources and fast
Pro Traditional UI
it has a traditionl User interface
Pro Well integrated into KDE
it works nicely on Plasma
Pro De-deps
Cons
Con Can't preview 7Zip archives
File Roller (and Engrampa which was forked from File Roller) has to read the whole 7zip archive to show the content.
Con Many KDE deps
It needs many KDE libs.