Windows 11 users can now manage RAR archives natively, with no need for third-party software or questionable archive "unpackers." Windows 11 22H2, the past year's last major...

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

  • FrankTheHealer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    611·
    1 year ago

    As someone who has daily driven Linux on all my devices for about 5 years now, I actually forgot that windows didn’t have built in rar, tar and 7zip support. Absolutely bonkers that it took them this long.

      • floofloofEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        And Windows still balks at most common filesystems.

      • pascal@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        They actually removed the old FTP support, it was somewhat still useful for local servers that didn’t have samba shares.

    • RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      To be fair, Windows now has better support than Gnome does natively. I wish they would finally give nautilus seamless archive integration…

      • herrvogel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Watch as they break it even more. They broke drag and drop between archives and nautilus a while ago and it remains broken to this day.