They’ve gone in on matrix pretty hard at this point

Literally the next sentence in the article:

Digital wallets […] have exploded in popularity but are not captured by Australian payments law.

The article doesn’t bother explaining what specifically the law does.

archive/paywall bypass link

OP said “only available for Arch” not “only packaged for Arch”. These are not remotely the same thing.

What software only works on Arch? If anything I see stuff that’s packaged for arch but can be installed from source on other distros without issue.

Ubuntu-only software, on the other hand, is infuriating

It’s a brand exposure exercise… why are you helping the crypto scammers increase their brand exposure?

People wouldn’t be buying it if they didn’t do it. This is on the stores

And it’s September. /c/mildlyinfuriating

Ah sorry, I missed that!

This might be more of a hack than you’re looking for, but you could probably install age in termux and put together a small shell script to operate it.

I think the reason you’re not finding what you’re looking for is because another widely agreed upon problem with pgp is that it is a generic encryption and signing tool and those turn out to be a bit of a UX nightmare. Building purpose-specific encryption into other applications tends to have much safer UX, that also tends to be less confusing.

That being said, age may do some of what you’re looking for. I don’t think it does signing but it does do encryption.