Like when you send a .7z instead of a .zip or .rar to a friend or a teacher because that’s what your computer has installed and they’re like “Oh No, not one of those, now I have to install 7Zip” even though the same program that opens .rar also opens .7z I feel like people are way more annoyed when they receive a .7z
I mean 7z is standardized and open source, and offers better compression. Why not make it the standard?
It’s not solving anything novel that zip isn’t already doing and zip format already has the benefit of reaching the market early. The slight benefit will be overlooked until a big marketing campaign sways a huge population (like iPhone adapting it as standard)
Windows and mac both support .zip natively, until 7z joins this category there’s no reason for an average person to manually download an extra software they’ve never heard of like unarchiver or 7-zip
7Z has about 250-300% better compression ratio than ZIP.
I’m sure, but most use cases for archives isn’t to reduce file size but rather have them neatly packaged into 1 file.
If I wanted to save space on my device, I’d probably use a tar ball or 7zip. And even then it depends a lot on what kind of files are being compressed. Images and music files don’t nearly have the same level of compression as text.
Edit: 7z supremacy
I am uhh… am a file compression fanatic on the levels of FitGirl and Razor1911.
Those compressions are a piece of art, hate that it takes hours to unpack them.
I might dig through old hard drives and compress everything since I barely touch them anyways. Definitely missing out on the compression revolution
No, not really. SREP+LOLZ does take time for video games but it can shave off ~20% more than 7Z LZMA2 or FreeARC maxed custom settings, and the decompression times are not that different, maybe 1.5-2x that of 7Z. Basically near PAQ levels without the PAQ speeds. The most you will really gain is from compressing videos with high bitrates (HEVC/AV1) and video game ROMs and game titles using tools that FitGirl, Razor and other Russian repackers use.
The cost of one time compression is forever harvested storage space savings, and time saved with bandwidth during read/write and upload/download. Compression is a space-time life hack. Pareto frontier for most people is 7Z/RAR, not Zstd for people other than web content delivery servers. Most people value bandwidth upload/download savings and storage space savings over faster content delivery times.