Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library::undefined
That’s pretty cool. Please give us our objectively-more-efficient taskbar layouts back and I’ll consider “upgrading” my desktop?
Install Linux, done.
Maybe if you leave the comment in a few more places, you’ll contribute something
Will do, thanks
I’m curious, how is the centering of it any less efficient than left aligning it?
Also you can left-align win 11
When the start menu was left aligned, you can move you mouse infinitely to the lower left and still click it irrespective of the initial location of the mouse (There is a term for this concept in UX design called infinite space or similar). For similar reasons, the close (x) button is in the upper right corner.
However with the start menu in the center, you have to accurately place the mouse on the start icon and there cannot be a muscle memory since the movement depends on the initial location.
Still gonna use 7zip, the default Windows packing/unpacking interface is atrocious.
Honestly though if they just added “extract to {archivename}\” as a right click option it would cover more than 90% of my usage.
Which is an incredible effort, very few software have an interface more atrocious than 7zip.
The UI is the main reason I actually paid for a WinRAR license.
I don’t use the interface, that’s the thing. I just use the contextual menu - which is more than enough to operate it easily. If the windows version of it had the same, then I wouldn’t mind at all.
Fair point.
Check out NanaZip
Fun fact “nana” means 7 in Japanese.
I didn’t know that. Interesting spin
If they’re incorporating open libraries, Hopefully support for real filesystems will be next
Humm, I doubt it as NTFS has ACLs built in to FS directly, so far I don’t know if Linux FS has that feature, I know that ACLs exists in the Linux file world, but I don’t know if they are built in durectly in the FS.
Pretty much all Linux FS support ACLs and have for an eternity.
The thing is that nobody uses ACLs because the good ole user/group/world rwx scheme is much less of a hassle to work with in 99.9% of the cases and the remaining 0.01% can still be done.
User/group/world scheme is useless in most cases.
Other file systems are supported since Win10.
tell that to my btrfs formated USB sticks or when I try to access an ext4 partition from a windows machine
not really scalable when you want to just stick the usb stick in a family member’s PC. They dont want you fucking around with WSL, or they probably run home edition which has no hyper-v for WSL
Then use NTFS or FAT, problem solved!
Yes reformat my already working keys for the one time I have to plug into a Windows box, or you know Microsoft could put the effort into being compatible.
They did. But you always have something to complain about. Grow up.
For history fans:
LZ77 and LZ78 are the two lossless data compression algorithms published in papers by [two Israelis named] Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv in 1977 and 1978… Besides their academic influence, these algorithms formed the basis of several ubiquitous compression schemes, including GIF and the DEFLATE algorithm used in PNG and ZIP.
The last two Israeli that did something useful for the society.
This isn’t true.
You can count hundreds here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_inventions_and_discoveries
I wonder how long before I can send someone a .7z file without “hurr durr I can’t open this”.
Like, OpenDocument support exists in Office 2003 and I still encounter those who can’t open a .odt file.
Serious question: why would one use .7z when .tar.gz and .tar.xz exist?
Tared files are cancer and should never be used for any reason.
Wtf are you on… It’s literally just a way to turn a bunch of files into one. You can feed it into a makefile and make a single file installer like nothing. Apps are based on the concept. It’s a key technology for all sorts of applications
It’s so simple it works for anything, anywhere… It’s like saying virtualization is cancer. It’s often annoying when you have to interact with it directly, but everything we love is built on it
Tared compressed files are bad archives. You can’t retrieve a single file without unpacking everything. You can’t add new files or replace contents of existing files without unpacking and repacking everything. They are just very outdated and have poor design. There are no reasons to use them.
They’re bad for storing files, but a great way to turn a folder into a file.
Installers don’t need to be modified or used in part
Why do you continue talking about installers? That’s not the reason people invented archives and compression.
Ok, you have this design, which every installer in the world uses. Some are more compressed, some are signed, some bootstrap a downloader - but at the end of the day, every downloadable installer uses the same basic concept. From Windows installers to dmg to flatpacks to app bundles - same basic idea.
A tarball is a bunch of files laid end to end, it’s good for one thing and one thing only - treating a bunch of files as one. It’s great at that… If you want to compress it, it’s not context aware enough to let you decrepit them individually - they’re encrypted as one file
It’s a bad way to store compressed archived info, I’ll grant you that, but it’s a great way to share a program or library to reproduce a bunch of files that make no sense to handle individually.
For another example, what about the layers of a photo editing program? What about the individual tracks in a music editing program?
It’s an incredibly useful pattern that is used in countless ways. It’s simple, easy to implement, and used everywhere to great effect
Install Linux already…
You have a point, but you’re being insufferable about it.
I know that I might be a bit insufferable on this point, but I feel it bears repeating over and over. Somebody has got to do it, Microsoft fucked over this world and people still believe that Linux is decades behind windows whilst in reality it’s leaps and bounds ahead. Yet people keep paying for windows shit.
People need to hear this shit, like it or not
Alright then, keep repeating it the way you do and see how people react to you, and how it reflects on the Linux community as a whole.
Perhaps you will gain the self-awareness necessary to actually understand why people are calling you insufferable.
You call me insufferable, you are not people and I’m at the point where I don’t give a shit what a Microsoft apologist thinks. I had to reinstall operating systems this weekend, Linux for me, windows for my son. Linux was a breezy 30 minutes, including downloading the iso, writing the USB, and installing it with an encrypted drive.
Windows was a breezy 7 hours of cursing, slamming my keyboard, loads of internet searches because 1) windows is an incompetent system and 2) Microsoft loves to sabotage their users. I wish I was kidding.
This is not a one off, this is typical for a windows installation, I’ve been having to do this for decades, it’s always shit.
It’s a retarded system and people have been scammed into buying shit and they love it because they don’t even know how bad it is.
I would not really care much directly, to each their own. If you love to pay tripple for bad quality (hardware and software) Shiny toys then go ahead, buy Apple! If you love to roll around in shit then buy windows! The problem though is that inevitably, all windows users come to me with their windows crap show because inevitably it will break over stupid shit, not tell the user (or me) what’s actually wrong, it’s always some weirdo UUID or base64 registry string that nobody can know that needs to be changed. Fuuuuuuck that shit. I’m so tired of always having to deal with windows shit.
If windows shots on me, I will shit on windows every chance I get.
So yeah, install linux!
Ok.
Microsoft loves opensource. :P
While still using proprietary API and proprietary specs for hardware… you know the thing that gets in the way of FOSS operating systems.
