Windows 11 users can now manage RAR archives natively, with no need for third-party software or questionable archive "unpackers." Windows 11 22H2, the past year's last major...

Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library::undefined

  • orphiebaby@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    That’s pretty cool. Please give us our objectively-more-efficient taskbar layouts back and I’ll consider “upgrading” my desktop?

      • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        When the start menu was left aligned, you can move you mouse infinitely to the lower left and still click it irrespective of the initial location of the mouse (There is a term for this concept in UX design called infinite space or similar). For similar reasons, the close (x) button is in the upper right corner.

        However with the start menu in the center, you have to accurately place the mouse on the start icon and there cannot be a muscle memory since the movement depends on the initial location.

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    11 months ago

    Microsoft annonces an actually useful feature for Windows once in a blue moon basically. This is one of them.

    But I still hate Windows.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      11 months ago

      It only took them 20 years to incorporate a handful of mainstream file formats as core features. Give them a medal.

  • speaker_hat@lemmy.oneEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    For history fans:

    LZ77 and LZ78 are the two lossless data compression algorithms published in papers by [two Israelis named] Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv in 1977 and 1978… Besides their academic influence, these algorithms formed the basis of several ubiquitous compression schemes, including GIF and the DEFLATE algorithm used in PNG and ZIP.

    Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ77_and_LZ78

      • phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I know that I might be a bit insufferable on this point, but I feel it bears repeating over and over. Somebody has got to do it, Microsoft fucked over this world and people still believe that Linux is decades behind windows whilst in reality it’s leaps and bounds ahead. Yet people keep paying for windows shit.

        People need to hear this shit, like it or not

        • Kayn@dormi.zoneEnglish
          11·
          10 months ago

          Alright then, keep repeating it the way you do and see how people react to you, and how it reflects on the Linux community as a whole.

          Perhaps you will gain the self-awareness necessary to actually understand why people are calling you insufferable.

          • phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            You call me insufferable, you are not people and I’m at the point where I don’t give a shit what a Microsoft apologist thinks. I had to reinstall operating systems this weekend, Linux for me, windows for my son. Linux was a breezy 30 minutes, including downloading the iso, writing the USB, and installing it with an encrypted drive.

            Windows was a breezy 7 hours of cursing, slamming my keyboard, loads of internet searches because 1) windows is an incompetent system and 2) Microsoft loves to sabotage their users. I wish I was kidding.

            This is not a one off, this is typical for a windows installation, I’ve been having to do this for decades, it’s always shit.

            It’s a retarded system and people have been scammed into buying shit and they love it because they don’t even know how bad it is.

            I would not really care much directly, to each their own. If you love to pay tripple for bad quality (hardware and software) Shiny toys then go ahead, buy Apple! If you love to roll around in shit then buy windows! The problem though is that inevitably, all windows users come to me with their windows crap show because inevitably it will break over stupid shit, not tell the user (or me) what’s actually wrong, it’s always some weirdo UUID or base64 registry string that nobody can know that needs to be changed. Fuuuuuuck that shit. I’m so tired of always having to deal with windows shit.

            If windows shots on me, I will shit on windows every chance I get.

            So yeah, install linux!

  • WuTang @lemmy.ninjaEnglish
    01·
    11 months ago

    Microsoft loves opensource. :P

    While still using proprietary API and proprietary specs for hardware… you know the thing that gets in the way of FOSS operating systems.