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

• Patch@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Zip has a worse compression ratio than 7z, and that’s a disadvantage for the average user (for example, a user with an email attachment size limit that they need to stay under).

  If Windows natively supports one of the better alternatives, there’s no reason to keep using zip. It’s a 30 year old format, and it’s something that regular users will happily just go with whatever’s default.

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  • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not only does Zip have a worse compression ratio than 7z, but it even takes longer to make the zip due to the fact the windows zip program is single threaded.

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• pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • lmaydev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Then you aren’t an average user.

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    • msage@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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