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

    • lmaydev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      196·
      1 year ago

      Why would you use any of them when zip exists?

      For an average user they offer no advantage.

    • RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      7z files can be browsed without decompressing the contents, and tar.xyz archives preserve file system attributes like ownership. They have totally different use cases.

      If I want to back up a directory on my drive, I would use tar.xz. But if I want to send some documents to other people, I would use 7z.

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      .7z and .xz are (essentially) the same compression algorithm but it’s applied either to the whole chunk of data, or to individual files. That has its pros and cons.

      More practically though windows users don’t know what the hell tarballs are, and I’ve even seen some bonkers handling like turning a tar.gz into a tar first that you then have to unpack.

    • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Tared files are cancer and should never be used for any reason.