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Windows 11 now supports 7-zip and TAR files

28 points by miles 2y ago

gnabgib 2y ago
Discussion at the time on HN [0] (150 points, 7 months ago, 102 comments), discussion in advance [1] (160 points, 1 year ago, 89 comments) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38084314 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38084314 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36052169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36052169
- zamadatix 2y ago
  That's a related but different conversation (adding support for extraction vs creating). Hard to tell just from the current headline though.
Fnoord 2y ago
Screenshot shows compress to, but text explains it is also decompression. I was downloading OPNsense today, to upload it to my Proxmox install. Couldn't bunzip2 the ISO file on Windows 10, and it would not accept an upload of iso.bz2. I guess I have to fix the WSL install, but in this case I ended up using curl on a Linux machine.
- woleium 2y ago
  Do the cygwin binaries not work any more? i have a folder of exe files for common linux tools i drop into windows/system32 on a new install
  - CoolCold 2y ago
    For myself I wouldn't use Cygwin binaries in the way you describe, will prefer doing things in WSL instead. YMMV of course, just saying my prefs.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
    You could also use https://cosmo.zip/ https://cosmo.zip/ ex https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin/bzip2 https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin/bzip2 should work on Windows. Or you could just grab cosmos-3.3.1.zip from https://justine.lol/cosmo3/ https://justine.lol/cosmo3/ and have approximately a whole posix-ish environment that works on most modern OSs.
ranger_danger 2y ago
> Windows 11 beta now supports creating 7-Zip and TAR archives It already supported decompressing them in 23H2, FWIW.
wkat4242 2y ago
Now rar also...
dvfjsdhgfv 2y ago
(1) 10 year or so too late, (2) MS would have to try much harder to convince people to migrate - it seem they have run out of ideas and just focus on monetizing the OS without any regard for the opinions of their customers. [0] [0] Maybe with one exception: the ability to ungroup windows on taskbar is finally coming back after a few years.
mmaniac 2y ago
I found it to be painfully slow, so I'm sticking with 7zip. Explorer integration is excellent in 7zip already anyway.

28 points by miles 2y ago

Discussion at the time on HN [0] (150 points, 7 months ago, 102 comments), discussion in advance [1] (160 points, 1 year ago, 89 comments) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38084314 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38084314 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36052169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36052169

zamadatix 2y ago
That's a related but different conversation (adding support for extraction vs creating). Hard to tell just from the current headline though.

Fnoord 2y ago

Screenshot shows compress to, but text explains it is also decompression. I was downloading OPNsense today, to upload it to my Proxmox install. Couldn't bunzip2 the ISO file on Windows 10, and it would not accept an upload of iso.bz2. I guess I have to fix the WSL install, but in this case I ended up using curl on a Linux machine.

woleium 2y ago
Do the cygwin binaries not work any more? i have a folder of exe files for common linux tools i drop into windows/system32 on a new install
- CoolCold 2y ago
  For myself I wouldn't use Cygwin binaries in the way you describe, will prefer doing things in WSL instead. YMMV of course, just saying my prefs.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
  You could also use https://cosmo.zip/ https://cosmo.zip/ ex https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin/bzip2 https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin/bzip2 should work on Windows. Or you could just grab cosmos-3.3.1.zip from https://justine.lol/cosmo3/ https://justine.lol/cosmo3/ and have approximately a whole posix-ish environment that works on most modern OSs.

ranger_danger 2y ago

> Windows 11 beta now supports creating 7-Zip and TAR archives It already supported decompressing them in 23H2, FWIW.

wkat4242 2y ago

Now rar also...

dvfjsdhgfv 2y ago

(1) 10 year or so too late, (2) MS would have to try much harder to convince people to migrate - it seem they have run out of ideas and just focus on monetizing the OS without any regard for the opinions of their customers. [0] [0] Maybe with one exception: the ability to ungroup windows on taskbar is finally coming back after a few years.

mmaniac 2y ago

I found it to be painfully slow, so I'm sticking with 7zip. Explorer integration is excellent in 7zip already anyway.