So there's a tool called tar that creates an archive (a .tar
file. Then theres a tool called zstd that can be used to compress files, including .tar
files, which then becomes a .tar.zst
file. And then you can encrypt your .tar.zst
file using a tool called gpg, which would leave you with an encrypted, compressed .tar.zst.gpg
archive.
Now, most people aren't doing everything in the terminal, so the process for most people would be pretty much the same as creating a ZIP archive.
What's messed up is that, technically, we do. Originally, OpenDocument was the ISO standard document format. But then, baffling everyone, Microsoft got the ISO to also have
.docx
as an ISO standard. So now we have 2 competing document standards, the second of which is simply worse.