diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 68597cf4c..26a42ba73 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ title: Changelog
 
 ### Bug Fixes
 
+-   Switch from gzip to deflate for compressing assets to make output consistent across different operating systems, #2796.
 -   Cascaded modifier tags will no longer be copied into type literals, #2802.
 
 ## v0.27.3 (2024-12-04)
diff --git a/src/lib/output/themes/default/assets/typedoc/utils/decompress.ts b/src/lib/output/themes/default/assets/typedoc/utils/decompress.ts
index 00b32d7e5..2b799b771 100644
--- a/src/lib/output/themes/default/assets/typedoc/utils/decompress.ts
+++ b/src/lib/output/themes/default/assets/typedoc/utils/decompress.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /**
- * Decompresses Base64-encoded Gzip data and parses it into a JSON object.
+ * Decompresses Base64-encoded deflate compressed data and parses it into a JSON object.
  *
- * @param base64 - The Base64-encoded string representing the Gzip-compressed JSON string.
+ * @param base64 - The Base64-encoded string representing the deflate-compressed JSON string.
  * @returns A promise that resolves to the parsed JSON object.
  */
 export async function decompressJson(base64: string) {
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ export async function decompressJson(base64: string) {
     const blob = new Blob([binaryData]);
     const decompressedStream = blob
         .stream()
-        .pipeThrough(new DecompressionStream("gzip"));
+        .pipeThrough(new DecompressionStream("deflate"));
     const decompressedText = await new Response(decompressedStream).text();
     return JSON.parse(decompressedText);
 }
diff --git a/src/lib/utils/compress.ts b/src/lib/utils/compress.ts
index 8e6274f59..015ffd1e3 100644
--- a/src/lib/utils/compress.ts
+++ b/src/lib/utils/compress.ts
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
-import { gzip } from "zlib";
+import { deflate } from "zlib";
 import { promisify } from "util";
 
-const gzipP = promisify(gzip);
+const deflateP = promisify(deflate);
 
 /**
- * Compresses a JSON-serializable object into a Base64-encoded Gzip string.
+ * Compresses a JSON-serializable object into a Base64-encoded deflate string.
  *
  * @param data - The JSON-serializable object to compress.
- * @returns A promise that resolves to a Base64-encoded string of the Gzip-compressed data.
+ * @returns A promise that resolves to a Base64-encoded string of the deflate-compressed data.
  */
 export async function compressJson(data: any) {
-    const gz = await gzipP(Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(data)));
+    const gz = await deflateP(Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(data)));
     return gz.toString("base64");
 }