Willy@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoRemember 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.message-squaremessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up1232arrow-down17
arrow-up1225arrow-down1message-squareRemember 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 agomessage-square74fedilink
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minus-squareNoxy@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·5 months agoThat claim is so vague as to be useless. Better how? Ratio? Speed? Better than what competing formats, and how?
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minus-squareBazebara@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months ago7z has way better (ultra) compression
minus-squareCocodapuf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-25 months agoSo that makes sense to use now. Rar made sense before 7z existed.
minus-squareBazebara@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months ago7z was developed in 1999. As far as I know, rar was popular due to was shareware with practically unlimited “trial” and there was an opinion, that paid products are better.
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That claim is so vague as to be useless.
Better how? Ratio? Speed?
Better than what competing formats, and how?
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7z has way better (ultra) compression
So that makes sense to use now. Rar made sense before 7z existed.
7z was developed in 1999. As far as I know, rar was popular due to was shareware with practically unlimited “trial” and there was an opinion, that paid products are better.
All the while 7z os FOSS (: