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Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library::undefined

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

LMAO that makes so much sense. No wonder you got all weird when I brought up installers. You're picturing a file in a folder that contains something you want

There's a lot of kinds of archives.

Tarballs don't suck, they're just not for you. You can go back to your blissful ignorance of how often you've used a tarball seamlessly without realizing it happened, because someone else understood the upside of the tech