@Willy@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 26 days 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-square79fedilinkarrow-up1231arrow-down17
arrow-up1224arrow-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 • 26 days agomessage-square79fedilink
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetlinkfedilinkEnglish9•25 days ago7 zip didn’t gain popularity until years later. WinRar was essentially free, since most people never bought the lifetime license.
7z works fine, and isn’t proprietary.
7 zip didn’t gain popularity until years later. WinRar was essentially free, since most people never bought the lifetime license.
7z uses proprietary rar library to unpack