Like when you send a .7z instead of a .zip or .rar to a friend or a teacher because that’s what your computer has installed and they’re like “Oh No, not one of those, now I have to install 7Zip” even though the same program that opens .rar also opens .7z I feel like people are way more annoyed when they receive a .7z
Really can’t relate, I only use 7z and compress to .zip it’s literally the most common format and I never use zip files for anything other then sending files.
Honestly I don’t even know what the real difference between the compression formats are, even as a sorta Linux using geek
Mostly just different algorithms that can achieve greater compaction under different data circumstances.
There are an infinite number of compression algorithms. The trick is to find ones that result in a smaller file for the data you have, which will have some non-random pattern to it.
The choices we think of today (gz, bz2, zstd, etc.) are fairly general purpose, but sometimes you find a data file that compresses significantly more with a particular algorithm.
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I guess that would explain why I never use other formats, the compression itself isnt important to me, just being able to send a folder of files without a bunch of uploads