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I don't need compatibility with other machines, I just need to know that in 20 years I'll be able to decompress my files. lzip might get there eventually, but

by ars 4y ago

I don't need compatibility with other machines, I just need to know that in 20 years I'll be able to decompress my files. lzip might get there eventually, but it's not there now. xz has enough usage behind it that I'm not concerned. bzip2 has enough usage but the compression ratio is worse. zstd has neither the usage nor the ratio.

smaudet 4y ago
> I just need to know that in 20 years I'll be able to decompress my files The way the author was talking I wouldn't be sure that's even true, if the authors are mucking about with the container format and xz makes some non-compatible breaking change, you may not even know you can't open old xz files with the new version (it reads versions based upon heuristics rather than a version number, IIRC from the article).