@[email protected] to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 7 months agoRemember 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.message-square79fedilinkarrow-up1232arrow-down17
arrow-up1225arrow-down1message-squareRemember 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.@[email protected] to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 7 months agomessage-square79fedilink
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetlinkEnglish9•7 months ago7 zip didn’t gain popularity until years later. WinRar was essentially free, since most people never bought the lifetime license.
7z works fine, and isn’t proprietary.
7 zip didn’t gain popularity until years later. WinRar was essentially free, since most people never bought the lifetime license.
7z uses proprietary rar library to unpack