Transcendant, 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, 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.
Transcendant, 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?
xtremeownage, 7zip is the way.
Unless, I am working in linux. Then tar+gzip.
Unless, I am doing backups or ZFS. Then, LZO typically, due to speed and minimal overhead.
currawong, 7-zip on desktop and ZArchiver on Android.
Xianshi, 7z usually.
Untitled_Pribor, On iOS i use command line archivers for whatever the file i want to decompress is, p7zip if i want to compress a file. On linux i use ark for compressing small files and decompressing files, because it integrates well with dolphin. For compressing i use PeaZip because it shows the progress.
wildbus8979, tar + xz
sxan, 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).
starman, gzip
Antimutt,
pineapplelover, 7z gui on arch
I_Miss_Daniel, ☑️ "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.)
Diplomjodler, 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.
redxef, cmix :)
Seriously though, probably tar+gz/xz/etc.
d3Xt3r, At least 32GB of RAM is recommended to run cmix.
Oof.
Jaysyn, 7Zip does everything I need & it's open source.
lluki, atool, wraps many archiver in one command
spez, I just do either
zip foo.zip foo
ortar czf bar.tar.gz bar
Add comment