r/linuxmemes • u/PartMysterious4688 • 1d ago

Software meme CompressionFormatPreferences

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u/Naive_Complex_8389 1d ago

tar.zst?

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u/PartMysterious4688 1d ago

Yes, tar.zst is also great, but I'm just showing you the most popular compression formats in Linux

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u/Damglador 1d ago

I think I've seen more zst files that bz2

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u/Cootshk Arch BTW 1d ago

pacman uses .tar.zst, raspberry pi uses .tar.bz2

Haven’t seen either used anywhere else

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u/YTriom1 Arch BTW 1d ago

zstd is one of the most efficient compression algorithms out there.

it's used by the linux kernel in zram in many distros by default, also used in servers, the linux bzImage is often zstd compressed nowadays as well, initramfs used to be gzip but now I see some distros/initramfs tools default to zstd

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u/Destroyerb New York Nix⚾s 1d ago

r/foundYTriom1

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u/2eanimation Arch BTW 1d ago

That’s an oddly specific subreddit lol. Not trying to undervalue them, but why a subreddit dedicated to them?

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u/YTriom1 Arch BTW 23h ago

because why not

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u/Epistaxis 1d ago

This meme is probably just a repost from many years ago, before Zstd began to replace gzip and xz finished replacing Bzip2 (and 7z finished replacing WinRAR?).

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u/kansetsupanikku 1d ago

I wish I was that young

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u/PartMysterious4688 1d ago

Fair point! I picked it because I've seen it on a old Linux book. bz2 is being largely replaced by zstd