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Remember 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. (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] blazebra@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

7z can be at least decompressed in macOS & FreeBSD out of the box.

On windows tar.bz/gz/xz unpacks to tar and then to actual files. As tar is a separate archive format

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Windows having tar.gz support is great.

I have scripts for generating log bundles on user computers and sending to a share. tar.gz is great for compressing ~2.5GB text to send over VPN, and then I can open the .tar.gz direct from the network drive with minimal additional delay opening a 500MB text file inside.

[-] blazebra@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

I still prefer 7z for compression

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