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

  • @RoyaltyInTrainingEnglish
    5•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.