Windows 11 users can now manage RAR archives natively, with no need for third-party software or questionable archive "unpackers." Windows 11 22H2, the past year's last major...

Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library::undefined

  • lmaydev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    1 year ago

    The whole point is most people don’t want a third party app.

    I also think for most users treating them as a normal folder makes complete sense.

    Chances are you aren’t the target audience of the default configuration of windows. It’s aimed at people who have trouble checking their email.

    • MonkderZweite@feddit.chEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Chances are you aren’t the target audience of the default configuration of windows.

      Yes. How to change it?

      • Shayeta@feddit.deEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Pay Microsoft to the point where they make more money from you than their current target audience.

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Get the majority of computer users trained to the point of understanding how computers work.

        Microsoft is just catering to their biggest market.

        • MonkderZweite@feddit.chEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          So does KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon, Mate, Pantheon… But i can fit them infinitely more to my taste than Windows Explorer-extension (aka Windows Desktop). Well, ok, not Gnome. Not without unsupported extensions. Gnome Foundation is almost as bad in their ignorance of userbase.

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      37·
      1 year ago

      Maybe they’re like that because they’ve been trained that way by shit software

        • Knusper@feddit.deEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          What are you even talking about? Archives have been so much easier to use on Linux for many years, because that headline was built-in.

        • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          What distro do you use which thinks an archive file needs executable permissions?

          Alternatively, what distro / file explorer can’t recognize the MIME types for archives (which has nothing to do with permissions but it’s the only relevant error that makes sensel?