03-27-2025, 04:38 PM -
7-zip does not come with Windows, you have to manually download and install it. Then you can compress to .7z using LZMA2 Ultra. I haven't heard of .7zip, sounds like a really old deprecated alias for .7z.
WinRar is proprietary software from the Windows XP era, no one tech savvy uses that anymore, 7-zip can also read the .rar format, which is a proprietary format that also compresses worst than LZMA2, thus it is utterly useless.
.zip has poor to near zero compression, so it is also useless if you actually want to do some compression and not only do a tarball-like archive.
We use .7z and .gz since they are the formats allowing for the best compression, and they're also open source.
WinRar is proprietary software from the Windows XP era, no one tech savvy uses that anymore, 7-zip can also read the .rar format, which is a proprietary format that also compresses worst than LZMA2, thus it is utterly useless.
.zip has poor to near zero compression, so it is also useless if you actually want to do some compression and not only do a tarball-like archive.
We use .7z and .gz since they are the formats allowing for the best compression, and they're also open source.
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