Like when you send a .7z instead of a .zip or .rar to a friend or a teacher because that’s what your computer has installed and they’re like “Oh No, not one of those, now I have to install 7Zip” even though the same program that opens .rar also opens .7z I feel like people are way more annoyed when they receive a .7z

  • haych@lemmy.oneEnglish
    28·
    11 months ago

    I just use 7zip to make .zip if I think the person I’m sending it to won’t know what a .7z is or how to unzip it.

    • flashgnash@lemm.ee
      3·
      11 months ago

      I don’t really see the point in using .rar or .7z in 90% of cases, makes very little difference in filesize compared to zip and anyone can open it without problems

      • Cybersteel@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 months ago

        Different locales might face formatting problems in the filename in non Latin characters like Chinese characters or hangul when using zip. 7z helps with that.

        • flashgnash@lemm.ee
          1·
          11 months ago

          Oh really? Haven’t heard of that but doesn’t surprise me

          Wouldn’t that just be a case of fixing .zip to support those characters though? Surely it can be updated