Still gonna use 7zip, the default Windows packing/unpacking interface is atrocious.
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2023
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Honestly though if they just added "extract to {archivename}\" as a right click option it would cover more than 90% of my usage.
I love KDE's "extract here, autodetect folder" feature for compressed files
Literally the reason why 7 zip is the first thing I install on a windows machine.
All the linux file managers I use have that context menu built in, so nothing else to install 😅 except that I also sometimes use 7zip file manager via WINE because I like a GUI
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God I'm so sick of Musk spa ... wait, what? Actual technology news?
You are part of the problem by bringing it up where it isn't relevant
Microsoft annonces an actually useful feature for Windows once in a blue moon basically. This is one of them.
But I still hate Windows.
It only took them 20 years to incorporate a handful of mainstream file formats as core features. Give them a medal.
Maybe they'll get around to multithreaded (de)compression in another 20 years.
I wonder how long before I can send someone a .7z file without "hurr durr I can't open this".
Like, OpenDocument support exists in Office 2003 and I still encounter those who can't open a .odt file.
I just tell them to install 7zip. I'm not working around your inadequacy.
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Microsoft loves opensource. :P
While still using proprietary API and proprietary specs for hardware... you know the thing that gets in the way of FOSS operating systems.
Microsoft loves Azure, anything else is there to draw people in.
Translation: Microsoft loves using code that other people wrote for free
Like Google and pretty much every other tech giant.
Google are extremely keen on supporting open source when it hits their competitors but when it's about their own business they pretty much avoids ot. They took Linux and created Android... they the practically locked it down by moving more and more essentials into Play Services... which by some of reason isn't open source.
Embrace, extend, extinguish
For history fans:
LZ77 and LZ78 are the two lossless data compression algorithms published in papers by [two Israelis named] Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv in 1977 and 1978... Besides their academic influence, these algorithms formed the basis of several ubiquitous compression schemes, including GIF and the DEFLATE algorithm used in PNG and ZIP.
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Guess now pirates have to standardise on a new proprietary format.
That's pretty cool. Please give us our objectively-more-efficient taskbar layouts back and I'll consider "upgrading" my desktop?
When I was offered a free sample, win11 ran slower and controls were walled off from the control panel and access instructions were behind paywalls. Also some of my games wouldn't play.
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I'm curious, how is the centering of it any less efficient than left aligning it?
Also you can left-align win 11
Yeah most people don't realize this
A lot of the supposed technology inclined people do, when it is literally 3 clicks and a scroll away in the most obvious place to look for it.
When the start menu was left aligned, you can move you mouse infinitely to the lower left and still click it irrespective of the initial location of the mouse (There is a term for this concept in UX design called infinite space or similar). For similar reasons, the close (x) button is in the upper right corner.
However with the start menu in the center, you have to accurately place the mouse on the start icon and there cannot be a muscle memory since the movement depends on the initial location.
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If they're incorporating open libraries, Hopefully support for real filesystems will be next
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Guess it's time to finally buy a WinRar license
Does it support password protected archives yet?
Nope, not yet
Nope, according to the File Explorer section under Highlights here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/october-31-2023-kb5031455-os-builds-22621-2506-and-22631-2506-preview-6513c5ec-c5a2-4aaf-97f5-44c13d29e0d4
"Note This features does not support password encrypted files."
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Another actually genuine useful update, so...
TIME TO BUY A WINRAR LICENSE!!!
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