I know, I know, same thing can be said for RAR, but RAR came about at a different time when saving a few extra kilobytes made sense. Sure, it's just one extra step in the process, but it terms of usability, it's an unnecessary hassle. I don't want to worry about having to install 7-Zip software on every clean machine where I want to install *some other* piece of software that happens to be archived with 7z. Aaargh!ġ) In an ideal world, compressed archives should be transparent. With Windows XP we even got native OS support for ZIP archives, leading the way to simple and painless dealing with most compressed files.Īnd just as we finally got comfortable with ZIP and RAR, suddenly this 7-Zip format comes out of nowhere! Before I can even ask what the hell it is, it's everywhere, on Doom9, on Sourceforge, its wannabe-cool ".7z" file extension staring me in the face and mocking me. Why, oh why, did we need another compressed archive file format? It took a good 15+ years of digital evolution to reduce the jungle of compressed file formats such as LHA, LZH, UC2, ACE and ARJ down to a reasonable two: ZIP and RAR.
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