Do you ever feel like you have to apologize for .7z archives?
Like when you send a .7z instead of a .zip or .rar to a friend or a teacher because that’s what your computer has installed and they’re like “Oh No, not one of those, now I have to install 7Zip” even though the same program that opens .rar also opens .7z I feel like people are way more annoyed when they receive a .7z
you can pipe a shell command directly into the archive. they’re also a standard archive format understood by most computers on earth.
or maybe this was a joke reply.
A few features of how tar archives work:
Fun examples of how this can all come together:
In practice, you double click your .tar.gz and it opens in your preferred archiver and it’s no different than a zip file.
They’ve certainly become a lot more…
Nope, not gonna do it.
Come on man, you think of how many Dads you’d make proud.
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You know you want to
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That doesn't count, businesses will continue to use whatever they have instead of upgrading if it's still fit for purpose.
see also COBOL
see also COBOL
“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyssCOBOL, the abyssCOBOL gazes also into you.”
Can’t comment on that because I don’t send archives very often, but here’s my aliases (aliae?) in my .bashrc to make extracting easier:
alias 7x=‘7z x’ alias untar=‘tar -xvf’ alias untargz=‘tar -xvzf’ alias untarxz=‘tar -xf’ alias ux=‘unrar x’
and for zip files it’s just unzip
alias untar=‘tar -xvf’
alias untargz=‘tar -xvzf’
alias untarxz=‘tar -xf’
Modern tar handles all of those with tar xf
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Dr. Jenkem7z x on a .tar.gz (or .tar.xz) gives you a .tar. If you don’t mind running 7z x again on that tar, it works
atool which is basically a program for dispatching to such aliases (aliases that it already provides on its own).
extract alias that just checks the extension and uses the right command. Upside is I didn’t have to remember tar’s flags in years. Downside is when I don’t have my alias (e.g. remote machine) I’m stuck googling lol
Who uses RARs who doesn’t use 7z though?
I think using anything other than deflate zip for things like sending to teachers or whatever isn’t very wise, and if you’re not then you won’t need to apologise anyway
No?
I just used 7Zip to compress to a .zip file when sending to anyone who I supect won’t have a something that can open the default compressed file.
Now I’m on linux, I don’t even know what application is doing the compressing, I just right click stuff in dolphin to compress/uncompress things using whatever format is suitable.
It can be. But pick a stable distro as long as you get past installation, you’ll be set.
I put Vanilla OS on my suster laptop, showed her the “app-store” (flatpak) and she’s been happily minecrafting ever since.
To be fair, someone with a more basic grasp of computers probably has fewer use cases that Linux will give you trouble with. I installed PuppyLinux on some ancient machine for someone I was renting from in like '08 and it was fine for her, but that’s because all she ever did was look at YouTube and check her email. It didn’t have any of the features of modern Ubuntu and the UI was clunky; if memory serves it didn’t even have DHCP.
But if you tried to do anything more complex, you’d better be ready to learn a thing or two.
Today it’s still pretty similar. Ubuntu and GNU at large have come a long way in the past couple of decades, but you still start running into issues when you get to more niche use cases.
I’d probably be running Ubuntu as my daily if Solaar worked properly with my MX Ergo, but it doesn’t, so I can’t. I guess I could go learn how to make contributions to patch that myself, and I may at some point, but at the moment I have stuff to get done and dealing with an unexpected hiccup in my workflow too often brings everything to a grinding halt.
Normally it means that people have to set their network IP when they connect their device since they are not automatically assigned one. If the IP is taken, the router will tell you.
The upside is that you don’t have changing IPs in your network. I use my phone to control Kodi on my RPi and if I didn’t force a static IP on it, I would have to search for the Kodi host probably every time I restart the RPi.
Many routers do support IP reservation while still having DHCP enabled tho.
You had to manually configure your IP on the PC’s end. In practice it just meant you had to hit a button to connect to your network when you boot up. Considering that like a decade earlier we were all on dialup it didn’t feel that weird at the time.
I was also getting my internet via cantenna back then, so DHCP was the least of my worries!
When was this? When I finally went full time a year ago, compatibility and ease of use hasd improveed greatly since the previous time I tried to leave Windows. And it sounds like the people giving you advice were gate-keeping assholes.
Any distro can install and run any software, choosing one is really just a matter of getting something that is already as close to the config you want as possible.
Not to discount your experience, but you’re only one data-point. The vast majority, in my experience, encounter few, if any, issues. And the ones they do can be solved by someone who knows even just the basics of linux. I’ve made the jump on several systems, for myself and other users.
A lot of windows know-how is useless, and linux newbies who are used to windows may look for solutions in the wrong places, and hence don’t find any. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist, or are more complex than on windows. I did this myself, bashing my head on problems with a simple solution, simply because I didn’t know that solution. Windows would seem pretty “complex” too if you didn’t know the control panel exists, or what its for.
For windows, the know-how for solving problems is simply more accessible. If you know someone who can help with linux, and don’t want to learn, then yeah, by all means, stick to windows.
But linux can absolutely be a good experience on desktop. And who knows, any given person can give it a try, and chances are, their system wont run into any issues at all!
Damn, when was this? I can’t remember the last time I installed Linux on a machine and had this experience.
I understand the frustration. Except the point about hardware. I mean, yeah, of course you need to pick hardware that’s compatible with the OS you want to run. Can we blame HP for not being compatible with macOS, or an iPhone for not running Android? Hardware needs drivers, so if your hardware isn’t compatible, that’s just… reality. 99% of the time I hear this complaint it’s either a wifi card or an Nvidia GPU lol
Honestly, I’m not a Linux person. I’ve been thinking about it, however I’m being held back by the fact that I think some of the software I use probably wouldn’t work in Linux, even with wine or proton. I know, I know, I can dual-boot Linux with windows, however really I don’t really want to fuck around with having to reboot everytime I want to use Substance Painter (rip Substance for Linux, if it weren’t for that I’d be dipping my toes in again) or some niche game modding tool that doesn’t play well with emulation layers. Also I have an Nvidia card because there’s a ton of support for Cuda (but not a lot of support for amd compatible GPU compute apis), and I’ve heard those don’t usually play well with Linux.
If I had to choose a distro to recommend for a non-techy person though, it’d probably be something like Mint or Ubuntu, and I’d make sure wine and/or proton is installed. Additionally, I’m not sure if wine or proton have the ability to setup a config database (it’s been a long time since I tried to use Linux), but I’d also setup something like that with all the most commonly used configs so that whenever a new program is launched in wine/proton, it searches the DB and then uses whatever config is set to be “the best”.
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