Remember 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. - eviltoast
  • aard@kyu.de
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    5 months ago

    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.

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      5 months ago

      Ah I have to use Windows for work and that’s the source of most of my compression needs. Thanks for the info though, I’ll look into this