MotorStorm Apocalypse: Digital Edition [NPUA90661]

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.

yea. i wasn't saying the software did. i misspoke and was talking about .zip the built in compression feature using shell32.dll.
as for no one tech savvy.... you can only speak for yourself not others. it's subjective. 7-zip can read .rar so it must not be that bad since winrar can do the same. if it was useless it wouldn't exist anymore like netscape.
.zip is probably the worst since i think that one is windows 7zip. winzip is better than that and that one is crap. regardless plenty of internet people still use the .winrar format. i have nothing against 7-zip. so idk what's with the hostility and ridiculing of it.

i am for open source. hell i have my own linux pc setup as a self hosted relay server. personally i'd use 7zip if everyone did. but since i notice not everyone does and some will not accept .7zip since it's blasphemy to them.
hence having winrar. also they were made literally 4 yrs apart. so it's not ancient. 1999 was 7zip literally xp time as well.


personally my actual preference. if it was possible. linux all the way gaming etc. and use gzip, it's more streamline and with dpkg it makes unziping files installable super easy(usually with tarball). but to archive things xz. it's insane how much it compresses. but that's idealistic.
lastly the other reason i used winrar. netbooks aren't that powerful i didn't have a powerful setup from the get go. also time constrants winrar is less strain especially on crappy laptops you have to troubleshoot others things as an IT. but when that's not a concern and you have a powerful setup. 7zip since it's no sweat. i take a pragmatic approach rather than absolutist. but that is my subjective view. i was only asking a clarification question not challenging you. sorry that i touched on a touchy subject. my bad.