Bazebara@programming.devtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Remember when it was a big deal if you chose .zip, .rar, or 7z, etc? Now we all have so much bandwidth it doesn't matter.
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5 months agoI still prefer 7z for compression
I still prefer 7z for compression
7z was developed in 1999. As far as I know, rar was popular due to was shareware with practically unlimited “trial” and there was an opinion, that paid products are better.
7z can be at least decompressed in macOS & FreeBSD out of the box.
On windows tar.bz/gz/xz unpacks to tar and then to actual files. As tar is a separate archive format
7z has way better (ultra) compression
Following this logic whole human life is a puzzle game.