Willy@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 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-square26fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-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 · 6 months agomessage-square26fedilink
minus-squarequicksand@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoIn that case, which file type would you recommend?
minus-squareaard@kyu.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 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.
In that case, which file type would you recommend?
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.