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I am in my early twenties and I would expect none of my peers during high school would have difficulty zipping up some files. Perhaps I am just in that brief p
by fl0under 7y ago
I am in my early twenties and I would expect none of my peers during high school would have difficulty zipping up some files.
Perhaps I am just in that brief period of time where more people than just the nerds knew the basics of the filesystem.
- detaro 7y agofew years older, same. But yes, I think that time were nearly everyone was a PC user was only a few years. (and I suspect it depends on country when exactly that was)
- pvaldes 7y agoThere are several layers in this problem. To be able to zip files like a pro is great, but maybe those people shouldn't be doing it when they can use bzip2, gzip or xz instead that perform better.
- ghaff 7y ago99% of the time who cares about the performance or the program. If I need to create a compressed archive of a bunch of files for some one off purpose I’ll use whatever is most obvious and easiest on whatever system I’m using.