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Archive vs compress As a former Windows user, I didn’t have much knowledge about file archiving and file compression. Like most PC users do, I simply collect the files we want to compress and right click the folder to compress then. The output compressed files are, without a doubt, mostly likely to be extension .zip or .rar files. However, when I switch to Linux, things changed. As on the road of knowing more commands, we inevitably go across files extensions ending like ....