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

ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

On macOS, the default double click behavior just unzips the archive into a folder of the same name with no additional interface. I always thought that was a nicer implementation than opening the archive to browse the files how Linux distros usually do (and maybe Windows; I’m not a frequent Windows user). It’s probably what 90% of people want 90% of the time. Why not just make that the default and put the other use cases behind the right click menu?

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prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Who unzips archives before you even know what’s in it? That’s madness.

You can do that in Windows and Linux, it’s just part of the right-click context menu, which makes far more sense to me.

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- barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Most importantly on KDE you have “extract archive here, autodetect subfolder”. Having Ark be a different program than Dolphin is also the right choice as archives aren’t directories.
  
  Also if you ever fucking make a tarball that doesn’t have a top-level directory and exactly one directory at the top level everyone officially hates you.
  
  (And yes for some unfathomable reason kde calls directories folders)
  
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  - IdealShrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    you seem angry. what’s the difference between a folder and directory, theyre the same thing.
    
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    barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’m not angry I’m older than Windows 95 which started that whole new-fangled “folder” thing for no reason whatsoever. And it’s slowly infecting Unix, too.
    
    …and at the same time they’re still using dir to list… a folder?
    
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    dgriffith@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    A folder stores files and you look up the location of things with the help of a directory. Folders (or archives, or partitions, or storage), have directories to allow you to access the files within.
    
    Just because Windows mushed those definitions together doesn’t mean that they’re the same.
    
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raptir@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I often want to extract just a few files from an archive, so no.

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RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Would that really be safe though? I wouldn’t want everything to unzip without checking first what’s inside.

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- Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I don’t think it’s in any way unsafe, unless something is very wrong with the in-archiving software, in which case viewing it would likely have the same vulnerability. Files existing I don’t think can cause any harm, again without some severe vulnerability somewhere along the chain. Running them is the issue.
  
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Gestrid@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Windows does basically what you think it does.

And I’d rather it not unzip the contents of a file that I haven’t looked at yet. I also sometimes only need one or two files from the zip folder and don’t want to unzip the entire thing.

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