I hope 7-Zip will support Zstandard someday, .tar.zst is getting more and more common and having to point people on Windows to install either modern7z (7z plugin for several new compression algorithms) or use zstd from the CLI is complicated.
Even considering that this is for linux, I still get pretty sad whenever I see windows users running winrar. 7-zip is simpler to use, (mostly) as fast and as compressed as rar. I really see no reason windows users still use winrar.
7-Zip is the first of the three programs I install on Windows before anything else (the other two being VLC and Sumatra PDF; I wish Sumatra were available on Linux, but evince is not bad as a replacement).
About a month ago, the cross-platform product I support had a group of developers considering standardizing on 7-Zip, only to realize that p7zip - what most Linux users consider 7-Zip - is actually a 3rd party project. Had this come out a month ago, it might have actually swayed their decision.
We always had official posix 7zip (aka p7zip)[1] support for linux, is this a different version or a new release?<p>Edit: read the description, so it is a different port, any any apparent enhancements though?<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.7-zip.org/download.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.7-zip.org/download.html</a>
By the way, do people use unar? It's a great solution I stumbled upon for when you want to be like "I don't know or care how this was compressed, just extract it for me"