Why use this over .7z? I’m legit curious.
It’s likely a combination of tradition/habit and compatibility. Tar.gz is widely supported on *nix systems, and while 7z is highly efficient, its not as widely supported and may need additional libraries or software to work on some systems,/distros
I believe it’s because tar.gz is more ubiquitous across unix distributions. I’ve honestly never seen a 7zip file on a unix system.
Why use this over .xz? I’m legit curious.
Removed by mod
yourfiles.tar.xz
tar just wraps, doesn’t compress. so more accurate would be the pillows in a looser bag that doesn’t squish them even a little :)
Reminds me of the “grandma.zip” meme
Naw thats grandma.mp3 or grandma.jpg because thats clearly lossy compression not lossless.
Yay this is now a URL. If your intention was not to post a URL to some random website not loading anything but javadscript, put a space inside
“Example .com”
Fuck Google
I do NOT understand how zip is still the default. I use .tgz wherever I can.
Compatibility with literally anything under the sun that can decompress a compressed file.
But isn’t that’s given with tgz too?
Except of course Windows iircWindows, Android, iOS do not open them by default.
You can do it on iOS using Siri Shortcuts.
I don’t get how they add all these formats to Shortcuts but only Zip into the file app…
