I think that pacman‘s command-line syntax is incredibly arcane, difficult to document or explain, and makes it way too easy to bork your entire install by accidentally typing one wrong letter

but I will give it one thing: every single time I have to type sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade && sudo apt autoremove it makes me wish I could just type sudo pacman -Syu. it’s very very terse and fast to type

@kasdeya it probably should be encouraged in all documentation to use the long flags more often and leave the short flags to those who are accustomed to it:

pacman --sync --refresh --sysupgrade

@kasdeya I type -Syyu to refresh the keyring as well, pretty important

@konstruct ughh that’s very good to know but also ugghhh I don’t like how many hidden footguns Arch has

@kasdeya I feel like it's not a bug, but a feature (tm), where the feature is bragging rights for those who understand

@konstruct that is certainly a design philosophy to have for a distro lol