Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library::undefined

  • prole@sh.itjust.works
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    2 年前

    Who unzips archives before you even know what's in it? That's madness.

    You can do that in Windows and Linux (kde at least), it's just part of the right-click context menu, which makes far more sense to me.

    Edit: I just remembered that a Mac mouse only has one button lol

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
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      2 年前

      Most importantly on KDE you have "extract archive here, autodetect subfolder". Having Ark be a different program than Dolphin is also the right choice as archives aren't directories.

      Also if you ever fucking make a tarball that doesn't have a top-level directory and exactly one directory at the top level everyone officially hates you.

      (And yes for some unfathomable reason kde calls directories folders)

      • IdealShrew@lemmy.world
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        2 年前

        you seem angry. what's the difference between a folder and directory, theyre the same thing.

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          2 年前

          I'm not angry I'm older than Windows 95 which started that whole new-fangled "folder" thing for no reason whatsoever. And it's slowly infecting Unix, too.

          …and at the same time they're still using dir to list… a folder?

        • Dave.@aussie.zone
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          2 年前

          A folder stores files and you look up the location of files within that folder with the help of a directory. It was a direct translation of physical concepts, such as the directory in the lobby of a building that tells you which floor and office a business is located.

          Just because Windows mushed those definitions together doesn't mean that they're the same.