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

  • Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
    51·
    1 year ago

    I mean 7z is standardized and open source, and offers better compression. Why not make it the standard?

    • And009@reddthat.com
      12·
      1 year ago

      It’s not solving anything novel that zip isn’t already doing and zip format already has the benefit of reaching the market early. The slight benefit will be overlooked until a big marketing campaign sways a huge population (like iPhone adapting it as standard)

      Windows and mac both support .zip natively, until 7z joins this category there’s no reason for an average person to manually download an extra software they’ve never heard of like unarchiver or 7-zip

        • And009@reddthat.com
          11·
          1 year ago

          I’m sure, but most use cases for archives isn’t to reduce file size but rather have them neatly packaged into 1 file.

          If I wanted to save space on my device, I’d probably use a tar ball or 7zip. And even then it depends a lot on what kind of files are being compressed. Images and music files don’t nearly have the same level of compression as text.

          Edit: 7z supremacy