alt Hacker NewsTooling ?
It takes years for bzip2 be in every Linux Distro, and we _still_ doing gzip.
LZMA / xz tool are start to get more support, but they are nowhere near universal.
No idea when how long zstd will need.
Tooling ?
It takes years for bzip2 be in every Linux Distro, and we _still_ doing gzip.
LZMA / xz tool are start to get more support, but they are nowhere near universal.
No idea when how long zstd will need.
xz is pretty universal across POSIX and clones though. It comes with any modern Linux distro, Busybox even has an .xz decompressor, so `tar xvJF file.tar.xz` does the right thing in *NIX land, which I presume includes MacOS with Brew.
For Windows systems, 7-zip (.7z, similar compression to .xz) is a free download for Windows 10, and Windows 11 can open up a .7z file with a simple double click.
.zip and .gz no longer need to be used here in 2026.