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Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library (www.techspot.com)

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

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[–] Patch@feddit.uk 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Zip has a worse compression ratio than 7z, and that's a disadvantage for the average user (for example, a user with an email attachment size limit that they need to stay under).

If Windows natively supports one of the better alternatives, there's no reason to keep using zip. It's a 30 year old format, and it's something that regular users will happily just go with whatever's default.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Not only does Zip have a worse compression ratio than 7z, but it even takes longer to make the zip due to the fact the windows zip program is single threaded.