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
Most importantly on KDE you have “extract archive here, autodetect subfolder”. Having Ark be a different program than Dolphin is also the right choice as archives aren’t directories.
Also if you ever fucking make a tarball that doesn’t have a top-level directory and exactly one directory at the top level everyone officially hates you.
(And yes for some unfathomable reason kde calls directories folders)
I’m not angry I’m older than Windows 95 which started that whole new-fangled “folder” thing for no reason whatsoever. And it’s slowly infecting Unix, too.
…and at the same time they’re still using dir to list… a folder?
A folder stores files and you look up the location of files within that folder with the help of a directory. It was a direct translation of physical concepts, such as the directory in the lobby of a building that tells you which floor and office a business is located.
Just because Windows mushed those definitions together doesn’t mean that they’re the same.
Who unzips archives before you even know what’s in it? That’s madness.
You can do that in Windows and Linux (kde at least), it’s just part of the right-click context menu, which makes far more sense to me.
Most importantly on KDE you have “extract archive here, autodetect subfolder”. Having Ark be a different program than Dolphin is also the right choice as archives aren’t directories.
Also if you ever fucking make a tarball that doesn’t have a top-level directory and exactly one directory at the top level everyone officially hates you.
(And yes for some unfathomable reason kde calls directories folders)
you seem angry. what’s the difference between a folder and directory, theyre the same thing.
I’m not angry I’m older than Windows 95 which started that whole new-fangled “folder” thing for no reason whatsoever. And it’s slowly infecting Unix, too.
…and at the same time they’re still using
dirto list… a folder?A folder stores files and you look up the location of files within that folder with the help of a directory. It was a direct translation of physical concepts, such as the directory in the lobby of a building that tells you which floor and office a business is located.
Just because Windows mushed those definitions together doesn’t mean that they’re the same.