7-Zip comes to Linux, 20 years after making it on Windows, but not as you expect

Last Sunday, my partner Diego told you about PeaZip. I'm not going to lie to you, I don't use that tool on Linux, but it has been my choice in Windows for a long time, partly because I don't use WinRar. And there are many compression formats, and a lot of software is or can be made compatible with many of them, but, from this week, Linux users can use one more: 7-Zip is now available for Linux users.

7-Zip is a very popular and powerful tool that we can use to compress and decompress files and folders. It is free and open source and with it we can open files with extensions .zip, .gzip, .tar and .rar, among others. We can also use the 7z compression format, in many comparisons above .rar, but much less popular. The first version of 7-Zip was released in 1999, and has been updated to this day, although its Windows interface is not the most visual in the world.

7-Zip releases the first official build for Linux

7-Zip 21.01 It has been released this Tuesday. Among its novelties, Linux users are interested in the first

• The command line version of 7-Zip for Linux has been released.
• ARM64 version speed improvements using hardware CPU instructions for AES, CRC-32, SHA-1, and SHA-256.
• The error in versions 18.02 - 21.00 has been solved: 7-Zip could not extract correctly some ZIP files created with the xz compression method.
• Fixed some bugs.

So, if you were hoping to use the app with a GUI, forget it. For now, what we can use will be a version that we will launch from the terminal. Thus, users like a server will continue with software like Ark, who is already compatible with p7zip, for example, which is in turn compatible with 7-Zip.

In any case, landing 7-Zip to Linux it's official. Hopefully the interface, which should be included in future versions, improves to Windows.