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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

if you’re on Windows use NanaZip. 7Zip refuses to use modern compression and encryption algorithms or integrate with the new Windows APIs. NanaZip is a fork that does just that.

https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

7-zip doesn’t exist on Linux. p7zip does, which hasn’t been updated since 2016

EDIT: It does, I stand corrected

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

7zip does exist on Linux:

https://www.7-zip.org/download.html

p7zip itself is out of date but updated forks exist. With 7zip having an up to date official version though there's no point to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol, just noticed that not only it is already installed on my system (never used it), but it also comes with a benchmark built in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, my mistake

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Not only it does exist, but it's also in official repos.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course! 7-zip is absolutely a software cornerstone, but as in all things open source it’s now better as it’s forked version with more active community efforts taking place

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Such is the power of open source.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Latest release is a touch old (2022) and it's not the most active repo ever. Hopefully its not dying.