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

  • @lmaydev
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    457 months ago

    The whole point is most people don’t want a third party app.

    I also think for most users treating them as a normal folder makes complete sense.

    Chances are you aren’t the target audience of the default configuration of windows. It’s aimed at people who have trouble checking their email.

    • TheMurphy
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      147 months ago

      It’s aimed at people who have trouble checking their email.

      Opening ZIP natively in folder app really is just user friendly practices. Ofc it’s easier to able to browse its content that way.

      You shouldn’t need 3rd party software for things that simple.

      • @Specal
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        37 months ago

        The problem being average people don’t tend to understand what a zip file is, I regularly have to explain that you can’t run an executable from a zip

        • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ
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          67 months ago

          You can though, Windows just prompts you to extract it if needed and it’s all fairly user friendly.

    • @[email protected]
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      57 months ago

      Chances are you aren’t the target audience of the default configuration of windows.

      Yes. How to change it?

      • @[email protected]
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        137 months ago

        Pay Microsoft to the point where they make more money from you than their current target audience.

      • @[email protected]
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        27 months ago

        Get the majority of computer users trained to the point of understanding how computers work.

        Microsoft is just catering to their biggest market.

        • @[email protected]
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          7 months ago

          So does KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon, Mate, Pantheon… But i can fit them infinitely more to my taste than Windows Explorer-extension (aka Windows Desktop). Well, ok, not Gnome. Not without unsupported extensions. Gnome Foundation is almost as bad in their ignorance of userbase.

    • prole
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      -87 months ago

      Maybe they’re like that because they’ve been trained that way by shit software

      • @kadu
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        27 months ago

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        • @[email protected]
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          7 months ago

          What distro do you use which thinks an archive file needs executable permissions?

          Alternatively, what distro / file explorer can’t recognize the MIME types for archives (which has nothing to do with permissions but it’s the only relevant error that makes sense)?

        • @[email protected]
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          47 months ago

          What are you even talking about? Archives have been so much easier to use on Linux for many years, because that headline was built-in.