7-zip on desktop and ZArchiver on Android.
All my real daily-use archivers were not listed in the poll, except
7zip.
Had to select “Other”, but meant:gzip,xz,bzip2,unrar,rarandzip.that thumbnail :D
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?
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.
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?
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atool, wraps many archiver in one command
tar + xz
Sometimes
-j, if it’s a small amount of data, otherwise it’s too slow. I’ve started using--zstda lot recently; still getting a feel for the performance, but it’s pretty good.I think
brotlihas 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).
tar + zstd - beat this!
cmix :)
Seriously though, probably tar+gz/xz/etc.
At least 32GB of RAM is recommended to run cmix.
Oof.
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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.
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.
☑️ “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.)
