Willy@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoRemember when it was a big deal if you chose .zip, .rar, or 7z, etc? Now we all have so much bandwidth it doesn't matter.message-squaremessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up1205arrow-down17
arrow-up1198arrow-down1message-squareRemember when it was a big deal if you chose .zip, .rar, or 7z, etc? Now we all have so much bandwidth it doesn't matter.Willy@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square74fedilink
minus-squareaard@kyu.delinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·5 months agoI personally prefer bzip2 - but it needs to be packed with pbzip, not the regular bzip to generate archives that can be extracted on multiple cores. Not a good option if you have to think about Windows users, though.
minus-squarequicksand@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoAh I have to use Windows for work and that’s the source of most of my compression needs. Thanks for the info though, I’ll look into this
I personally prefer bzip2 - but it needs to be packed with pbzip, not the regular bzip to generate archives that can be extracted on multiple cores. Not a good option if you have to think about Windows users, though.
Ah I have to use Windows for work and that’s the source of most of my compression needs. Thanks for the info though, I’ll look into this