Yep, but Windows is still the majority right now… And i’m sure there are a lot of people out there that don’t have 7zip installed (why doesn’t MS include their own implementation already ?)
let me rephrase, “people who only install two or three softwares on their computer without wanting to learn “complicated” stuff such as archive format. ~and browse facebook too~.”
We might be able to deal with lack of windows support by running something else or using WSL (edit correcting me being an idiot: or a third party extractor program, duh).
But the fact remains it’s a pretty huge install base and when sending files, especially in something like a work setting, it’s best to cause the least amount of friction possible.
Because of your comment, I did a quick google search and pretty much every source says that .tar.gz is also pretty ancient and not that good (from a compression point of view). For better compression, you can use the xz or 7zip formats. The former is more used on Linux, if that’s what you’re using.
People barely understand how to open a .zip file, explaining what .tar.gz is and why you need an additional program (on Windows) is going to be impossible.
I do NOT understand how zip is still the default. I use .tgz wherever I can.
Compatibility with literally anything under the sun that can decompress a compressed file.
But isn’t that’s given with tgz too?
Except of course Windows iirc
Yep, but Windows is still the majority right now… And i’m sure there are a lot of people out there that don’t have 7zip installed (why doesn’t MS include their own implementation already ?)
And this is the problem imo. If you NEVER change a thing you will never improve
Good luck teaching that to people who only use a computer to browse Facebook.
Not saying it’s impossible, but it takes time
Do these even need zips?
i was exagerating but you get the idea
let me rephrase, “people who only install two or three softwares on their computer without wanting to learn “complicated” stuff such as archive format. ~and browse facebook too~.”
They do but its useless. Winrar can handle .tar.* too
Windows, Android, iOS do not open them by default.
You can do it on iOS using Siri Shortcuts.
I don’t get how they add all these formats to Shortcuts but only Zip into the file app…
We might be able to deal with lack of windows support by running something else or using WSL (edit correcting me being an idiot: or a third party extractor program, duh).
But the fact remains it’s a pretty huge install base and when sending files, especially in something like a work setting, it’s best to cause the least amount of friction possible.
Because of your comment, I did a quick google search and pretty much every source says that .tar.gz is also pretty ancient and not that good (from a compression point of view). For better compression, you can use the xz or 7zip formats. The former is more used on Linux, if that’s what you’re using.
Lzo or lzma is best for compression. Also depends on the compression rate. KDE Ark is awesome
Nono, z-standard is where it’s at
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People barely understand how to open a
.zipfile, explaining what.tar.gzis and why you need an additional program (on Windows) is going to be impossible.