vutura wrote:
the 2021 one drive downloads are unnecessarily complicated
Sorry for the inconvenience on your end. But it has reasons.
zip is bad because the osz is already a zip, with its extension renamed.
Compressing an already compressed file with the same method WON'T HELP ANY.
It would just help as a packager, with little to no size reduce at all.
Leave the osz as is, meh: torrenting would saturate your resources, and downloading from Drive also takes enormous time zipping them for you to download (or you spend time download every single osz)
7z (lzma2): best compression, but needs LOTS of memory (your RAM) to compress and decompress as well, also LONG TIME compress & decompress.
zstd helps with most of that, decent compress, FAST extract time. And you can always download the SFX exe files. They include things needed to extract it for you, so you have really little "complicated time" though. Unless you super careful about malware and doubt the files (and you should most of the times), then that's the time for you to think it's complicated and download the 7z with other archiving programs.
I choose this because it's like a 1 time download, extract then delete (unless you want to store them as collection), so I choose this method for the convenience of FAST extraction time.
Also, this was meant as a temporary folder before Elessey makes thing though. They will be removed in the future.