Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library
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Why would you use any of them when zip exists?
For an average user they offer no advantage.
Zip has a worse compression ratio than 7z, and that's a disadvantage for the average user (for example, a user with an email attachment size limit that they need to stay under).
If Windows natively supports one of the better alternatives, there's no reason to keep using zip. It's a 30 year old format, and it's something that regular users will happily just go with whatever's default.
Not only does Zip have a worse compression ratio than 7z, but it even takes longer to make the zip due to the fact the windows zip program is single threaded.
I know for a fact .tar.xz offers the best compression rate for my use case.
Then you aren't an average user.
It also takes forever to pack.
I ran benchmarks for syslog compression/decompression, and ended up using plzip, which used lzma, just because it was the fastest decompression while still having only marginally worse ratio.
But it still takes forever to pack.