7Zip does everything I need & it's open source.
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2023
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I may be weird but I use both Ark (default archiver in KDE) and 7-zip in wine. The reason is that 7-zip has better compatibility with some file formats but most importantly, Ark can't extract files with unicode file names from some archive formats (including tar!). This problem has been known for years and affect many other linux archivers, it's a pain in the ass.
Isn't there a command line 7zip for Linux + custom gui for it, or from another compression manager software?
Yep, it's unofficial but the tools are p7zip and p7zip-gui. Confusingly, there's also PeaZip (which uses the 7zip libraries) and has no relation to the former.
p7zip doesn't seem to be maintained anymore, 2016 seems to be last update (direct link to source forge from the 7zip website).
However a direct official cli port seems to have been created. Not sure if it can be installed through a repo, or if it has to be downloaded from the 7zip website.
I saw some older threads saying it wasn't maintained anymore
p7zip doesn't seem to be maintained anymore
There's an active fork for it, and some disros (Arch for one) have switched to it already.
But yea, there is an official 7-zip cli port, it's being maintained but I haven't seen it in any repos yet though.
tar + xz
Sometimes -j, if it's a small amount of data, otherwise it's too slow. I've started using --zstd a lot recently; still getting a feel for the performance, but it's pretty good.
I think brotli has potential, but - again - I have to get used to using it more to get a feel for when it's safe to use (as it, it finishes before I lose patience with it).
All my real daily-use archivers were not listed in the poll, except 7zip.
Had to select "Other", but meant: gzip, xz, bzip2, unrar, rar and zip.
7zip is the way.
Unless, I am working in linux. Then tar+gzip.
Unless, I am doing backups or ZFS. Then, LZO typically, due to speed and minimal overhead.
7z usually.
that thumbnail :D
cmix :)
Seriously though, probably tar+gz/xz/etc.
At least 32GB of RAM is recommended to run cmix.
Oof.
I just do either zip foo.zip foo or tar czf bar.tar.gz bar
gzip
โ๏ธ "Compress the contents of this folder to save disk space."
(used sparingly, mostly on older HTML folders.)
(just did my ~weekly log back into kbin dance.)
7-zip on desktop and ZArchiver on Android.
Default macos archiver - Keka if I have any issues
7z gui on arch
On iOS i use command line archivers for whatever the file i want to decompress is, p7zip if i want to compress a file. On linux i use ark for compressing small files and decompressing files, because it integrates well with dolphin. For compressing i use PeaZip because it shows the progress.
tar + zstd - beat this!
Apparently it's something called file roller, which shows up in Mint as Archive Manager. And yes, I had to look that up right now. Never thought about it before.