> a program that doesn’t matter anymore
The rest of this comment has, though gratuitously snarky, a point, but I don’t think claiming that 7zip is irrelevant as an independent statement is even remotely coherent.
The rest of this comment has, though gratuitously snarky, a point, but I don’t think claiming that 7zip is irrelevant as an independent statement is even remotely coherent.
Betamax was better, too.
Half the internet is tar.xz. tar.zstd will probably replace that.
It was smaller, had better picture AND audio quality, and a better head to tape ratio.
It was also proprietary and stored less, which were 2 causes of it losing to VHS.
.zstd may END UP being a standard, or it may not, but sheer technical merit is not enough to guarantee it.
Betamax was updated repeatedly, as was VHS. At no point was contemporaneous consumer Betamax able to match VHS for quality with the same recording times.
This is a persistent myth propagated primarily by people who have probably never seen Betamax in use.
Often people compare a professional version of betamax to consumer versions of VHS as well.