Why doesn't Windows ship with an unarchiving utility?
I'm not sure I'd tell people I did that if it were me.
the issue is that it sucks, it's at least 10x slower than 7 zip, maybe more, showing lots of files/folders freezes the explorer gui on w10 and it only supports .zip (which could've been changed on w11, never used, never tried)
In 11 (and maybe later 10 updates) they added 7z and rar support.
When you open a .tar.gz or a .rar that button is gone.
For those you need to do right mouse on the .tar.gz or .rar and click "Extract All...".
I miss the days when Windows' UI was consistent.
It's just more noticeable on 11/10 because the last four releases each have a very distinct visual style.
It didn't ship in the distant past due to anti-competitive reasons but it is there now.
I can't really stomach Windows 11 so I don't personally use it but my understanding is that the latest version of Windows 11 has finally integrated a better solution, implementing archive extraction based on libarchive.
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.
And it's only because of that comment that I learned windows 11 finally improves things.
HN users are different breed of sticklers that aren't representative of the norm.
There's a grand canyon gap between something not existing and you not liking it how it works because your personal tastes, hence why the comment is flagged, because it's in bad faith and disingenuous.
> HN users are different breed of sticklers that aren't representative of the norm.
It acts kind of like a folder but tons of things don't work when you navigate into it. And it hasn't been improved in 20 years. It's bad.
It's significantly worse for a random person because stuff breaks and they don't know why. At least if you try to run an exe it asks about extracting the whole thing so that one case is less likely to blow up.
> There's a grand canyon gap between something not existing and you not liking it how it works because your personal tastes, hence why the comment is flagged, because it's in bad faith and disingenuous.
Just the fact that it doesn't work for any other archive format is enough to make the original comment merely sloppy wording. It's not bad faith or disingenuous. Don't be so judgemental.
Humor me, how popular or other non-zip formats for average Joe's uses?
I'm a paper user and can't remember the last time I encountered a non zip format.
...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.