Windows 11 now supports 7-zip and TAR files

Discussion at the time on HN [0] (150 points, 7 months ago, 102 comments), discussion in advance [1] (160 points, 1 year ago, 89 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38084314

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36052169

(1) 10 year or so too late, (2) MS would have to try much harder to convince people to migrate - it seem they have run out of ideas and just focus on monetizing the OS without any regard for the opinions of their customers. [0]

[0] Maybe with one exception: the ability to ungroup windows on taskbar is finally coming back after a few years.

Screenshot shows compress to, but text explains it is also decompression.

I was downloading OPNsense today, to upload it to my Proxmox install. Couldn't bunzip2 the ISO file on Windows 10, and it would not accept an upload of iso.bz2. I guess I have to fix the WSL install, but in this case I ended up using curl on a Linux machine.

> Windows 11 beta now supports creating 7-Zip and TAR archives

It already supported decompressing them in 23H2, FWIW.

I found it to be painfully slow, so I'm sticking with 7zip. Explorer integration is excellent in 7zip already anyway.

Now rar also...