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When it has bad support for just zip I think phrasing it as windows lacking an unarchiving utility is reasonable enough, and certainly not bad enough to get flagged like the comment currently is. It's not bad faith, jeez. I'm going to go vouch for the comment and hope it survives.

And it's only because of that comment that I learned windows 11 finally improves things.






Who's the judge of zip support being 'bad'?

HN users are different breed of sticklers that aren't representative of the norm.

There's a grand canyon gap between something not existing and you not liking it how it works because your personal tastes, hence why the comment is flagged, because it's in bad faith and disingenuous.


> Who's the judge of zip support being 'bad'?

> HN users are different breed of sticklers that aren't representative of the norm.

It acts kind of like a folder but tons of things don't work when you navigate into it. And it hasn't been improved in 20 years. It's bad.

It's significantly worse for a random person because stuff breaks and they don't know why. At least if you try to run an exe it asks about extracting the whole thing so that one case is less likely to blow up.

> There's a grand canyon gap between something not existing and you not liking it how it works because your personal tastes, hence why the comment is flagged, because it's in bad faith and disingenuous.

Just the fact that it doesn't work for any other archive format is enough to make the original comment merely sloppy wording. It's not bad faith or disingenuous. Don't be so judgemental.


>Just the fact that it doesn't work for any other archive format

Humor me, how popular or other non-zip formats for average Joe's uses?

I'm a paper user and can't remember the last time I encountered a non zip format.


I'm not sure but I've sure seen a lot of winrar memes.

I guess that settles it.



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