I’ve learnt to check the endeavouros forum before a kernel update (normal updates are fine), it can save you from having to chroot and tweak stuff… It takes 5 minutes to check against 2 hours to fix
Interesting. I’ve never had anything serious than updating keyring and removing before reinstalling packages. Pacman hasn’t failed me enough to need more than
- error msg is obvious (like keyring), conflicts, fix it
- if not check archlinux.org, follow fix from there,
- new problem I need to search, mostly happens because I haven’t learned about it. Like first time I came across keyring problem.
There were lots of issues with Wayland becoming default and nvidia being nvidia during those times, in fact I’ll add nvidia updates to the things you should check the forums for before intalling. Now the main issues have been ironed out, but for example there was another issue recently which required uninstalling a package before updating
https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmware-2025061312fe085f-5-upgrade-requires-manual-intervention/