Willy@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

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.

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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.

Willy@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

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7z works fine, and isn’t proprietary.
- AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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  7 zip didn’t gain popularity until years later. WinRar was essentially free, since most people never bought the lifetime license.
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  7z uses proprietary rar library to unpack

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