If you're a non-developer Windows user, you won't encounter a tarball in the wild very often. I think I first ran into one when I wanted an emulator in the earl

If you're a non-developer Windows user, you won't encounter a tarball in the wild very often. I think I first ran into one when I wanted an emulator in the early aughts (as a teenager) and found it on Sourceforge. My immediate thoughts were, "What the hell is this?" and "Why didn't they just give me an EXE?"