creating a zip fast in linux
While true there are better archive formats such as TAR, TAR+GZIP, TAR+ZST (which I really like), 7-Zip, and others, the saving grace of ZIP is that everybody knows what it is, and it's stupidly easy to use on the Linux command line. There's also another saving grace that I'll get to in a minute.
If I wasn't such a nerd when it comes to email, a bunch of email would probably have been lost forever.
There's a word that comes to mind when navigation gets so complicated that it becomes ridiculous...