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Lolors17@feddit.de to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

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  • Semmelstulle@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    I do NOT understand how zip is still the default. I use .tgz wherever I can.

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      Compatibility with literally anything under the sun that can decompress a compressed file.

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        But isn’t that’s given with tgz too?
        Except of course Windows iirc

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          Windows, Android, iOS do not open them by default.

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            You can do it on iOS using Siri Shortcuts.
            I don’t get how they add all these formats to Shortcuts but only Zip into the file app…

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          Yep, but Windows is still the majority right now… And i’m sure there are a lot of people out there that don’t have 7zip installed (why doesn’t MS include their own implementation already ?)

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            They do but its useless. Winrar can handle .tar.* too

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            And this is the problem imo. If you NEVER change a thing you will never improve

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              Good luck teaching that to people who only use a computer to browse Facebook.

              Not saying it’s impossible, but it takes time

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                Do these even need zips?

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      Because of your comment, I did a quick google search and pretty much every source says that .tar.gz is also pretty ancient and not that good (from a compression point of view). For better compression, you can use the xz or 7zip formats. The former is more used on Linux, if that’s what you’re using.

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        Lzo or lzma is best for compression. Also depends on the compression rate. KDE Ark is awesome

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          Nono, z-standard is where it’s at

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            Removed by mod

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