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

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 year ago

    I don’t really see the point in using .rar or .7z in 90% of cases, makes very little difference in filesize compared to zip and anyone can open it without problems

    • Cybersteel@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Different locales might face formatting problems in the filename in non Latin characters like Chinese characters or hangul when using zip. 7z helps with that.

      • flashgnash@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        Oh really? Haven’t heard of that but doesn’t surprise me

        Wouldn’t that just be a case of fixing .zip to support those characters though? Surely it can be updated