Ancestors

Written by Oliver Jensen on 2024-04-20 at 17:28

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

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Toot

Written by Oliver Jensen on 2024-04-20 at 17:31

Here is a useful error message:

The signing keys have expired. You can update them via

sudo pacman -S archlinux-keyring

sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys

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.

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Descendants

Written by Oliver Jensen on 2024-04-20 at 17:35

I may be irritated at my computer today.

Then again I'm irritated by almost every computer almost every day, so 🤷

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Written by Superdave! on 2025-01-06 at 06:23

@ojensen Agree with your assessment of Archlinux. They make me feel too dumb to Arch, and it's just silly gate-keeping!

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