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Do you ever feel like you have to apologize for .7z archives?

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Like when you send a .7z instead of a .zip or .rar to a friend or a teacher because that’s what your computer has installed and they’re like “Oh No, not one of those, now I have to install 7Zip” even though the same program that opens .rar also opens .7z I feel like people are way more annoyed when they receive a .7z

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silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.net
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no, I’m civilized. I use .tar.zstd

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Lobo6780@lemm.ee
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I love sending this to my windows friends

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silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.net
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saaame

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TheQuickHedgehog@lemmy.sdf.org
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use 7zip zstd!

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𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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Cool kids use .tar.xz

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jackpot@lemmy.ml
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whats so good about those

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silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.net
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you can pipe a shell command directly into the archive. they’re also a standard archive format understood by most computers on earth.

or maybe this was a joke reply.

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Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de
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Hmmm I’m more of a File.zip.tar.gz.epub.7z.xs guy

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Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
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Use .arc for old time’s sake.

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Gleddified@lemmy.ca
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Go out of your way to compress files into tar.gz to freak the normies

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katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Compress a tar.gz into a 7z into a rar into a zip

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bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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I always send a targz first and only upon request will I send anything else

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twistedtxb@lemmy.ca
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Could be worse: I was all for the .ARJ church back then. LHA was also considered

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Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org
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Trading disks back in high school we’d exclusively use arj, and intentionally roll the “r” sound because arrrrrj 🏴‍☠️

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𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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I did that once. They didn’t even notice. Really bummed me out. To be fair, it was after I had them install 7Zip, so the fault is mine. Haha

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hexaflexagonbear [he/him]@hexbear.net
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If they complain about about a .7z file send them a .tar.gz file.

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GreenMario@lemm.ee
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Break out goold old .ace just to fuck with em.

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EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee
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Wait, people still use RAR?

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NixDev@programming.dev
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I got a rar file for work a few weeks ago and had the same thought. ‘RAR is still a thing!?!?’

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Illiterate Domine@infosec.pub
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They’ve certainly become a lot more…

Nope, not gonna do it.

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mackwinston@feddit.uk
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.rar is an awful proprietary format that needs to die, and die soon. You should NEVER use .rar files when sending files to others due to its closed proprietary nature.

.zip is preferable because everyone can handle it by default. 7z is OK because nearly everyone can handle it by default and it is an open format.

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