this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Compatibility with literally anything under the sun that can decompress a compressed file.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But isn't that's given with tgz too?
Except of course Windows iirc

[–] Mininux 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 ?)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And this is the problem imo. If you NEVER change a thing you will never improve

[–] Mininux 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good luck teaching that to people who only use a computer to browse Facebook.

Not saying it's impossible, but it takes time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Mininux 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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~."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah sometimes I just don't realize that a thing is an exaggeration haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They do but its useless. Winrar can handle .tar.* too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Windows, Android, iOS do not open them by default.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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...