alt Hacker News>It ships with a very terrible wizard.
Terrible how? It just needs to zip and unzip and it does that fine for most users. What else do you expect for casual users? For power usurers there's 7zip or WinRar or other solutions.
> Maybe I should say, why does the Windows unarchiving feature suck?
And what stopped you from saying that? HN rules say comments should be in good faith. What you said has clearly different meaning than what you say you meant.
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The Extraction Wizard is a bit clunky opening a dialog box asking where you want to extract things...
...then a brief flash as the decompress happens because it's no longer 1998 and we're not extracting 2 MB of ZIP files on a Pentium 166,
... then you get a silly "complete!" screen with a pre-filled checkbox that spawns another Windows Explorer window by default.
Eh, three clunky "wizard" screens is a bit much for a "extract here..." command.
When it has bad support for just zip I think phrasing it as windows lacking an unarchiving utility is reasonable enough, and certainly not bad enough to get flagged like the comment currently is. It's not bad faith, jeez. I'm going to go vouch for the comment and hope it survives.
And it's only because of that comment that I learned windows 11 finally improves things.