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So many. So many little utilities that just work. To mention a couple I think no one will mention because they are not sexy: Okular and Ark
Big fan of the KDE suite of software. I've tried alternatives, but always come back to plasma and associated software
Ark is the best. It can open any type of zipped/compressed file, and it puts even 7zip to shame.
I've found a few things it won't open that 7-Zip will, but they've been very few and far between.
Okular works so well at this point that I use it to annotate all my PDFs if I don't explicitly need free-hand drawing (and xournalpp otherwise).