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I'm not fully up on the latest and greatest in compression technologies but my go to format these days is usually 7zip which I believe is just a container that uses LZMA. For whatever reason *nix people seem to hate it even though I get much better compression with it than tarballs, zlib/zips. Is there a similar container format that will or does use LZFSE? And how much better is it than 7zip/LZMA?

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The Unixy version of LZMA is called XZ. Unix people prefer tar over zip, probably for historical/tribal reasons.

There are really three different compression "markets"; LZMA/XZ provides strong compression while LZFSE provides moderate or light compression so they don't really compete.

> Unix people prefer tar over zip, probably for historical/tribal reasons.

To this day I refuse to use the z argument to tar. Packaging and compressing are two different operations, and this is why the UNIX gods created pipes.

And also I'm a stubborn old fart.

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