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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm the weird one in the room. I've been using 7z for the last 10-15 years and now .tar.zst, after finding out that ZStandard achieves higher compression than 7-Zip, even with 7-Zip in "best" mode, LZMA version 1, huge dictionary sizes and whatnot.

zstd --ultra -M99000 -22 files.tar -o files.tar.zst

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can actually use Zstandard as your codec for 7z to get the benefits of better compression and a modern archive format! Downside is it's not a default codec so when someone else tries to open it they may be confused by it not working.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That is an interesting implementation of security through obscurity…

How does one enable this on the standard 7Zip client?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

On Windows, it's easy! Unfortunately, on Linux, as far as I know, you currently have to use a non-standard client.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Cool, THANKS!! 😊 🙏