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Poll title: Which file archiver/compression utility do you use? - Options: Built-in / Default archiver in Windows/Linux/Mac,7-Zip,Archiver,Bandizip,BetterZip,Keka,PeaZip,WinRAR,WinZip,Others
  • marv99@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    All my real daily-use archivers were not listed in the poll, except 7zip.
    Had to select “Other”, but meant: gzip, xz, bzip2, unrar, rar and zip.

  • dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza
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    1 year ago

    I may be weird but I use both Ark (default archiver in KDE) and 7-zip in wine. The reason is that 7-zip has better compatibility with some file formats but most importantly, Ark can’t extract files with unicode file names from some archive formats (including tar!). This problem has been known for years and affect many other linux archivers, it’s a pain in the ass.

    • Tibert@compuverse.uk
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      1 year ago

      Isn’t there a command line 7zip for Linux + custom gui for it, or from another compression manager software?

      • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzOP
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        1 year ago

        Yep, it’s unofficial but the tools are p7zip and p7zip-gui. Confusingly, there’s also PeaZip (which uses the 7zip libraries) and has no relation to the former.

        • Tibert@compuverse.uk
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          1 year ago

          p7zip doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore, 2016 seems to be last update (direct link to source forge from the 7zip website).

          However a direct official cli port seems to have been created. Not sure if it can be installed through a repo, or if it has to be downloaded from the 7zip website.

          I saw some older threads saying it wasn’t maintained anymore

          • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzOP
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            1 year ago

            p7zip doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore

            There’s an active fork for it, and some disros (Arch for one) have switched to it already.

            But yea, there is an official 7-zip cli port, it’s being maintained but I haven’t seen it in any repos yet though.

  • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Apparently it’s something called file roller, which shows up in Mint as Archive Manager. And yes, I had to look that up right now. Never thought about it before.

  • Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m a basic bitch, winrar for life. If I need mac compatibility I save as a zip instead of a rar. Seems I am alone in my basic bitchness, my assumption was that all compression utilities are doing the same thing… how come you’re all using something different?

    • RHOPKINS13@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Because there are free and open source alternatives available, rather than having WinRAR beg you to pay for it every time you open it. You should really try 7-Zip. Haven’t looked back at WinRAR or any other utility since.

      • Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        It doesn’t bother me to just hit ESC after I open it, can see how that would bug others (though tbf that’s the point, and it remains free for me to use despite escaping out of that request for decades). Are there any advantages in speed of compression by switching to a different program?

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      Sometimes -j, if it’s a small amount of data, otherwise it’s too slow. I’ve started using --zstd a lot recently; still getting a feel for the performance, but it’s pretty good.

      I think brotli has potential, but - again - I have to get used to using it more to get a feel for when it’s safe to use (as it, it finishes before I lose patience with it).

  • I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    ☑️ “Compress the contents of this folder to save disk space.”

    (used sparingly, mostly on older HTML folders.)

    (just did my ~weekly log back into kbin dance.)