7-Zip, have never had any issues with it.
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Just the usual. GZip for compression, TAr for archives.
There was a point in time where every byte of data saved was important : when transferring to a floppy disk, when uploading/downloading via 56.6K / 128K / 256K.
Now that we live in a world where a 128Gb pendrive is worth 12€, a 1Tb hard drive is less than 50€ and internet speeds go almost at 1Gbps... the default archive manager is sufficient.
Indeed. I was obsessed with compression back in the day, always looking up the best format that could squish every last byte, so ended up using many esoteric formats such as ACE, ARJ and others that I've long forgotten - most of which became redundant with the introduction of LZMA / 7-Zip.
Nowadays, I care more about accessibility/speed/cross-platform compatibility, so I just stick to plain ol' zip.
True.
I mostly use tar for transferring too many small file and tar.zst for backup in storage.
I barely use compression at all. Additonal storage is cheaper than wasted time when you're working with lots of data.
7zip used to be it but I'm mostly using Macs these days so I just use the built in one. It's already there.
7z for anything Windows related, bz2 compression with tar archive for just that little more squeeze of compression, zip for anything less valuable or to send to normies
I just use zip... it's the default for me
Missing options for file managers like Total/Free/Unreal Commander
Engrampa with pcmanfm (filemanager)