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

  • @barsoap
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    57 months ago

    .7z and .xz are (essentially) the same compression algorithm but it’s applied either to the whole chunk of data, or to individual files. That has its pros and cons.

    More practically though windows users don’t know what the hell tarballs are, and I’ve even seen some bonkers handling like turning a tar.gz into a tar first that you then have to unpack.