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When comparing PeaZip vs Xarchiver, the Slant community recommends PeaZip for most people. In the question“What are the best archivers on Linux?” PeaZip is ranked 1st while Xarchiver is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose PeaZip is:
PeaZip is available for Windows and Linux.
Specs
LicenseLGPL-3.0-only
PlatformsWindows, MacOS, Linux, BSD
User InterfaceGUI
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Pros
Pro Multi-platform
PeaZip is available for Windows and Linux.
Pro Supports over 150 archive types
Pro Can show a file list without loading the whole archive
For 7zip-files (perhaps other types too) while File Roller cannot do this.
Cons
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Con Segfaults when creating large archives
When creating large archives it crashes and doesn't show you any helpful message (unless you started it from the terminal you will get something like "[1] 14858 segmentation fault (core dumped) xarchiver").
Con Doesn't show a progress UI while it's creating an archive
You have to "guess" when it's done.
Con Not in active development
Xarchiver has only one maintainer and it seems he's not working on it actively.