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by rollcat 280 days ago
Which is odd. Windows was able to browse ZIPs like normal folders since... 98? XP? Can't remember now.

IMHO KDE delegates too much core functionality to apps. On macOS, I can press "space" while having a file selected and I get an instant preview. This sort of thing must not be delegated.

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Is this true? I was under the impression windows wasn't able to decompress zip files natively till very recently, like windows 11. I could be remembering wrong.
Yeah it's been supported since at least Windows 7. I think XP sounds about right.
Windows millenium was first to bundle.

The recent update to 11 added libarchive integration with bunch of formats