diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b7c17f3..f84541c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,31 @@
 pbuild.log
-*tar.gz
 .DS_Store
+
+# Archives / installers — never commit these (207 MB olex2 zip once bloated the repo)
+*.zip
+*.tar
+*.tar.gz
+*.tgz
+*.tar.bz2
+*.tbz2
+*.tar.xz
+*.txz
+*.tar.zst
+*.gz
+*.bz2
+*.xz
+*.zst
+*.7z
+*.rar
+*.jar
+*.war
+*.deb
+*.rpm
+*.dmg
+*.iso
+*.img
+*.run
+*.bin
+*.AppImage
+*.sif
+*.squashfs