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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem being average people don't tend to understand what a zip file is, I regularly have to explain that you can't run an executable from a zip

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You can though, Windows just prompts you to extract it if needed and it's all fairly user friendly.