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Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library (www.techspot.com)
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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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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Honestly though if they just added "extract to {archivename}\" as a right click option it would cover more than 90% of my usage.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love KDE's "extract here, autodetect folder" feature for compressed files

[–] DasherPack 3 points 1 year ago

that is why I still use dolphin

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Literally the reason why 7 zip is the first thing I install on a windows machine.

All the linux file managers I use have that context menu built in, so nothing else to install 😅 except that I also sometimes use 7zip file manager via WINE because I like a GUI

[–] technojamin 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you used Windows recently? This option currently exists as a right-click option in Windows 11.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I only see the "Extract All..." option which has been there for years and isn't what I want. If it just proceeded with the extraction and didn't pop up a window asking where to put it then we'd be in business, but as currently implemented it's an additional interaction to do the same thing.