tar is just the way you pack multiple files and directories into one file, you can pipe the tar file through any compression algorithm you like it doesn't matte

tar is just the way you pack multiple files and directories into one file, you can pipe the tar file through any compression algorithm you like it doesn't matter. The tar command has many compression options builtin https://man.archlinux.org/man/tar.1#Compression_options https://man.archlinux.org/man/tar.1#Compression_options And you can also specify any compression program you like through `-I CMD` e.g. `-I "zstd -10"` would compress the tar archive with zstd and compression level 10.