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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

7Zip does everything I need & it's open source.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months 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).

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

atool, wraps many archiver in one command

https://www.nongnu.org/atool/

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

that thumbnail :D

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

cmix :)

Seriously though, probably tar+gz/xz/etc.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

At least 32GB of RAM is recommended to run cmix.

Oof.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

7z usually.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I just do either zip foo.zip foo or tar czf bar.tar.gz bar

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

paq8o because why not? PeaZip handles it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

tar + zstd - beat this!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

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?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

7-zip on desktop and ZArchiver on Android.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

โ˜‘๏ธ "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.)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Default macos archiver - Keka if I have any issues

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

7z gui on arch

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.