Still gonna use 7zip, the default Windows packing/unpacking interface is atrocious.
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2023
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Honestly though if they just added "extract to {archivename}\" as a right click option it would cover more than 90% of my usage.
I love KDE's "extract here, autodetect folder" feature for compressed files
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Literally the reason why 7 zip is the first thing I install on a windows machine.
All the linux file managers I use have that context menu built in, so nothing else to install 😅 except that I also sometimes use 7zip file manager via WINE because I like a GUI
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I wonder how long before I can send someone a .7z file without "hurr durr I can't open this".
Like, OpenDocument support exists in Office 2003 and I still encounter those who can't open a .odt file.
#2040 take or leave it
I just tell them to install 7zip. I'm not working around your inadequacy.
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Microsoft annonces an actually useful feature for Windows once in a blue moon basically. This is one of them.
But I still hate Windows.
It only took them 20 years to incorporate a handful of mainstream file formats as core features. Give them a medal.
Maybe they'll get around to multithreaded (de)compression in another 20 years.
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As someone who has daily driven Linux on all my devices for about 5 years now, I actually forgot that windows didn't have built in rar, tar and 7zip support. Absolutely bonkers that it took them this long.
they dont even have (s)ftp support built into their file explorer
And Windows still balks at most common filesystems.
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To be fair, Windows now has better support than Gnome does natively. I wish they would finally give nautilus seamless archive integration...
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Microsoft loves opensource. :P
While still using proprietary API and proprietary specs for hardware... you know the thing that gets in the way of FOSS operating systems.
Microsoft loves Azure, anything else is there to draw people in.
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For history fans:
LZ77 and LZ78 are the two lossless data compression algorithms published in papers by [two Israelis named] Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv in 1977 and 1978... Besides their academic influence, these algorithms formed the basis of several ubiquitous compression schemes, including GIF and the DEFLATE algorithm used in PNG and ZIP.
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Guess now pirates have to standardise on a new proprietary format.
This is great, but I honestly hate the way that windows treats zips like they are just folders on your computer when they are fundamentally different, and I want to do different things with them. Sure, it's nice to be able to browse the files inside, but I can do that with 7zip.
The whole point is most people don't want a third party app.
I also think for most users treating them as a normal folder makes complete sense.
Chances are you aren't the target audience of the default configuration of windows. It's aimed at people who have trouble checking their email.
It's aimed at people who have trouble checking their email.
Opening ZIP natively in folder app really is just user friendly practices. Ofc it's easier to able to browse its content that way.
You shouldn't need 3rd party software for things that simple.
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That's pretty cool. Please give us our objectively-more-efficient taskbar layouts back and I'll consider "upgrading" my desktop?
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If they're incorporating open libraries, Hopefully support for real filesystems will be next
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Guess it's time to finally buy a WinRar license
Another actually genuine useful update, so...
TIME TO BUY A WINRAR LICENSE!!!
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