yourfiles.tar.xz
tar just wraps, doesn’t compress. so more accurate would be the pillows in a looser bag that doesn’t squish them even a little :)
Spotted the Linux user
Reminds me of the “grandma .zip” meme
Yay this is now a URL. If your intention was not to post a URL to some random website not loading anything but javadscript, put a space inside
“Example .com”
Oops, yeah that was my intention lol. I’ll put some invisible unicode character after the dot, maybe that would do it.
Fuck Google
Naw thats grandma.mp3 or grandma.jpg because thats clearly lossy compression not lossless.
Why use this over .7z? I’m legit curious.
Why use this over .xz? I’m legit curious.
XZ is a single file container, whereas 7Z is a full fledged complete compressor which can handle multiple files. I see no reason to prefer TAR+XZ.
Compatibility. Every Linux system comes with tar and gzip
I do NOT understand how zip is still the default. I use .tgz wherever I can.
Compatibility with literally anything under the sun that can decompress a compressed file.
But isn’t that’s given with tgz too?
Except of course Windows iirc
Because of your comment, I did a quick google search and pretty much every source says that .tar.gz is also pretty ancient and not that good (from a compression point of view). For better compression, you can use the xz or 7zip formats. The former is more used on Linux, if that’s what you’re using.
Lzo or lzma is best for compression. Also depends on the compression rate. KDE Ark is awesome
Nono, z-standard is where it’s at
Best explanation of tar/tar.gz that I have seen
I’ve learned something today
