• mlg@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Very common compression utility for LZMA (.xz file)

      Similar to .gzip, .zip, etc.

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        8 months ago

        It’s definitely common, but zstd is gaining on it since in a lot of cases it can produce similarly-sized compressed files but it’s quicker to decompress them. There’s still some cases where xz is better than zstd, but not very many.