Here's my problem with #ArchLinux: it seems to greatly prioritize "feeling super cool h4x0rm4n" over actually being useful.
Take package updates for example. If it's been a while, it will almost certainly tell you for every package you're trying to update:
> [Package file] is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).
Oh shit! Corrupted file! MITM! Hax!
Lol no. Nowhere, *anywhere*, does it tell you what the actual (trivial) problem is, or how to fix it.
#flamebait but true :P
Here is a useful error message:
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The signing keys have expired. You can update them via
sudo pacman -S archlinux-keyring
sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys
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Or, better yet, don't have an error at all and just *do this automatically*.
But if it did that, you wouldn't be able to feel super cool key-jockeying your crypto shit, and if you don't intrinsically know this then maybe you're just too dumb to Arch.
This attitude seems to be pervasive across the entire operating system.
I may be irritated at my computer today.
Then again I'm irritated by almost every computer almost every day, so 🤷
Oliver Jensen
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