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[-] tubaruco@lemm.ee 13 points 5 months ago

what even is xz?

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

Very common compression utility for LZMA (.xz file)

Similar to .gzip, .zip, etc.

[-] dan@upvote.au 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's definitely common, but zstd is gaining on it since in a lot of cases it can produce similarly-sized compressed files but it's quicker to decompress them. There's still some cases where xz is better than zstd, but not very many.

[-] teegus@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 months ago

People doesn't even know what ~~a rootkit~~ XZ is, why should they care? -Sony CEO probably

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