While both are Archive Programs, WinRAR does a bunch of things that 7Zip does not and some things 7Zip does better, as 7Zip does a couple of things that WinRAR doesn’t and a few things that WinRAR doesn’t do as well as 7Zip.
Also depending on what you are archiving WinRAR does it better for various things, where 7Zip tends to work better at Raw Data and certain Data Structures.
I really dont think there are that many people out there who are going out and making consciously decided choices between winrar and 7zip based on stuff like this
tar doesn’t even provide compression. Which may be what you want. If you have a weak CPU and a big storage device why would you waste the cpu cycles? I know I’ve removed the compression step in AUR builds for example. But if you don’t know what it does, maybe an all in one solution like 7zip or winrar might be a more attractive prospect.
The tar format doesn’t, but the tar command has command line flags for a number of compression algorithms, and if your algorithm of choice doesn’t have a flag, you can just pipe it to the compression program.
The pixz compressor provides parallized compression/decompression (desirable on modern CPUs), uses LZMA (like 7zip or xz), and provides indexed access when used as tar's compressor. The last of these is what you want.
I very rarely list the content of compressed files, so that doesn’t bother me much.
Back in the day the trick to get better compression on zip files was to first make an uncompressed zip file, and then put that in a compressed zip file. tar did that all by itself!
I found one explanation in that winrar is developed by germans and 7zip by a russian guy. Maybe some people dont want to support russian stuff? But thats pretty far fetched imo…
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Maybe enterprise support? It know this is important for many companies or governmental agencies.
How is it garbage though?
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But it works.
People often overestimate how much a normal everyday user needs or cares. Goes for pretty much everything, tech, music, art, etc.
While both are Archive Programs, WinRAR does a bunch of things that 7Zip does not and some things 7Zip does better, as 7Zip does a couple of things that WinRAR doesn’t and a few things that WinRAR doesn’t do as well as 7Zip.
Also depending on what you are archiving WinRAR does it better for various things, where 7Zip tends to work better at Raw Data and certain Data Structures.
I really dont think there are that many people out there who are going out and making consciously decided choices between winrar and 7zip based on stuff like this
I don’t understand how people can be using that garbage when
tarexiststar doesn’t even provide compression. Which may be what you want. If you have a weak CPU and a big storage device why would you waste the cpu cycles? I know I’ve removed the compression step in AUR builds for example. But if you don’t know what it does, maybe an all in one solution like 7zip or winrar might be a more attractive prospect.
The tar format doesn’t, but the
tarcommand has command line flags for a number of compression algorithms, and if your algorithm of choice doesn’t have a flag, you can just pipe it to the compression program.Compressed tars suck anyway since you need to decompress them in order to get the list of files inside, unlike in any other sane archive format.
The pixz compressor provides parallized compression/decompression (desirable on modern CPUs), uses LZMA (like 7zip or
xz), and provides indexed access when used astar'scompressor. The last of these is what you want.https://github.com/vasi/pixz
pixzis packaged in Debian-family distros.I very rarely list the content of compressed files, so that doesn’t bother me much.
Back in the day the trick to get better compression on zip files was to first make an uncompressed zip file, and then put that in a compressed zip file.
tardid that all by itself!I mean that’s what GUI archivers do when you open the file.
So tar is only useful for some kind of automatic workflows where archives are processed automatically. Like what package managers do.
I found one explanation in that winrar is developed by germans and 7zip by a russian guy. Maybe some people dont want to support russian stuff? But thats pretty far fetched imo…
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Isnt winrar developed by some people in Berlin?
It was invented and developed by a Russian but the company that sells it is registered in Germany.