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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

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