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I do NOT understand how zip is still the default. I use .tgz wherever I can.
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Because of your comment, I did a quick google search and pretty much every source says that .tar.gz is also pretty ancient and not that good (from a compression point of view). For better compression, you can use the xz or 7zip formats. The former is more used on Linux, if that’s what you’re using.
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Lzo or lzma is best for compression. Also depends on the compression rate. KDE Ark is awesome
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Compatibility with literally anything under the sun that can decompress a compressed file.
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Yep, but Windows is still the majority right now… And i’m sure there are a lot of people out there that don’t have 7zip installed (why doesn’t MS include their own implementation already ?)
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