zip is better than tar.gz for some applications though.

notably, individual files can be read from a zip archive without unpacking the whole archive, different than tar.gz files.

tar.gz files are only better if you pack and unpack the whole archive at once, but even then, they don't have much advantage. the major advantage is that you can pipe the output of tar creation over the network to another computer who decompresses the tar immediately, thus transferring a folder. zip has index at beginning/start, so it requires seek when writing or skip when reading, so it can't be streamed.

honestly most of the time if I'm sending an archive, my main goal is to bundle the files, not ideal compression. zip is the most compatible format

Sends tar.gz in return

Just as long as it isn't a .rar.

Mm zips :3

I've had quite a few, cause a lot of mods for games come in zip files x3

Not sure what the issue with zip files is? They're supported on basically every device and afaik are not a proprietary format or anything. Seems better to me than rar or 7z. Tar.gz is also fine, but * don't really see why one would care

Bc Linux is a .tar nation?

What am I missing? What's wrong with zip? Should tar.gz be used instead?

Anti Commercial-AI license

Considering even Windows can open it without any third-party program, I would say it's quite useful.

A zip file? Thanks, that will fit in the trash bin quite nicely.