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Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library (www.techspot.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Why would you use any of them when zip exists?

For an average user they offer no advantage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know for a fact .tar.xz offers the best compression rate for my use case.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Then you aren't an average user.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It also takes forever to pack.

I ran benchmarks for syslog compression/decompression, and ended up using plzip, which used lzma, just because it was the fastest decompression while still having only marginally worse ratio.

But it still takes forever to pack.