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Poll title: Which file archiver/compression utility do you use? - Options: Built-in / Default archiver in Windows/Linux/Mac,7-Zip,Archiver,Bandizip,BetterZip,Keka,PeaZip,WinRAR,WinZip,Others
  • dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza
    10·
    1 year ago

    I may be weird but I use both Ark (default archiver in KDE) and 7-zip in wine. The reason is that 7-zip has better compatibility with some file formats but most importantly, Ark can’t extract files with unicode file names from some archive formats (including tar!). This problem has been known for years and affect many other linux archivers, it’s a pain in the ass.

    • Tibert@compuverse.uk
      3·
      1 year ago

      Isn’t there a command line 7zip for Linux + custom gui for it, or from another compression manager software?

      • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzOP
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yep, it’s unofficial but the tools are p7zip and p7zip-gui. Confusingly, there’s also PeaZip (which uses the 7zip libraries) and has no relation to the former.

        • Tibert@compuverse.uk
          1·
          1 year ago

          p7zip doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore, 2016 seems to be last update (direct link to source forge from the 7zip website).

          However a direct official cli port seems to have been created. Not sure if it can be installed through a repo, or if it has to be downloaded from the 7zip website.

          I saw some older threads saying it wasn’t maintained anymore

          • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzOP
            4·
            1 year ago

            p7zip doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore

            There’s an active fork for it, and some disros (Arch for one) have switched to it already.

            But yea, there is an official 7-zip cli port, it’s being maintained but I haven’t seen it in any repos yet though.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      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).

  • marv99@feddit.deEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    All my real daily-use archivers were not listed in the poll, except 7zip.
    Had to select “Other”, but meant: gzip, xz, bzip2, unrar, rar and zip.

  • HTTP_404_NotFound@lemmyonline.comEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Untitled_Pribor@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.