• Nika@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    7z for anything Windows related, bz2 compression with tar archive for just that little more squeeze of compression, zip for anything less valuable or to send to normies

  • 🧟‍♂️ Cadaver@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    There was a point in time where every byte of data saved was important : when transferring to a floppy disk, when uploading/downloading via 56.6K / 128K / 256K.

    Now that we live in a world where a 128Gb pendrive is worth 12€, a 1Tb hard drive is less than 50€ and internet speeds go almost at 1Gbps… the default archive manager is sufficient.

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      1 year ago

      Indeed. I was obsessed with compression back in the day, always looking up the best format that could squish every last byte, so ended up using many esoteric formats such as ACE, ARJ and others that I’ve long forgotten - most of which became redundant with the introduction of LZMA / 7-Zip.

      Nowadays, I care more about accessibility/speed/cross-platform compatibility, so I just stick to plain ol’ zip.