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> 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 a
by starkrights 1y ago
> 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.
- ltbarcly3 1y agotar.zstd is superior in basically every way, open, and portable
- michaelcampbell 1y agoIt's fine that we run in different circles, but I have yet to see one of these in the wild. Betamax was better, too.
- ltbarcly3 1y agoBetamax wasn't better. This is just a meme. Half the internet is tar.xz. tar.zstd will probably replace that.
- michaelcampbell 1y agoBetamax was objectively better in many categories; that it doesn't fit your narrative is now another one. 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.
- ltbarcly3 1y agoBetamax, as released, was not better than VHS. It also had very low recording times of like 1 hour per tape. 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.