Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library

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Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library
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It's like when .zip was popular I guess?

Tar.gz is a two step thingy too (maybe under the hood 7z is too) so the extraction process always seems long?

Pro tip: Tar knows what to do if you try to untar a tar.gz file. It Just Works(tm).

Yeah I know, and it's only useful rarely as if you can extract directly to the target, you don't need to have an intermediate copy (or do intermediate copying). Really nitpicking ofc.

Eh? 'tar xvf foo.tar.gz' is technically 2 steps I guess, but that's pretty well hidden from the user.