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https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/20/systemd_2561_data_wipe_fix/
Following closely after the release of version 256, version 256.1 fixes a handful of bugs. One of these is emphatically not systemd-tmpfiles recursively deleting your entire home directory. That's a feature.
The 256.1 release is now out, containing some 38 minor changes and bugfixes. Among these are some changes to the help text around the systemd-tmpfiles command, which describes itself as a tool to "Create, delete, and clean up files and directories." Red Hat's RHEL documentation describes it as a tool for managing and cleaning up your temporary files.
That sounds innocuous enough, right?
It isn't, as Github user jedenastka discovered on Friday. He filed bug #33349 and the description makes for harrowing reading, not just because of the tool's entirely intended behavior, but also because of the systemd maintainers' response, which could be summarized as "you're doing it wrong".
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday June 25 2024, @01:33PM
Myself, I'm not running servers or needing to support a bunch of systems; I just wanted something that didn't make my eyes bleed like Win10 did (and still does) and where the file manager (where I more or less live when I'm not doing something else) doesn't make me want to string up a UI developer. A good stable desktop OS that would give me no grief and would Just Work. (I was spoiled by XP; suits me very well, never a bit of trouble and uptimes measured in years, and the ability to make it wholly restful to the aging eyes. And I'm past where I'm willing to fight the everyday OS to a draw. Immediate surrender or it's on the next prospect.)
Daily driver is still XP64 (deal with it, world, I'm safer than you are). Mostly PCLinuxOS when I need "modern". And a whole stack of small HDs and a hotswap bay for Test OSs (have found live and installed are often not the same). But as you say... "Eventually they may well turn into nothing more than hobby/experimental distros, not fit for everyday use." I think it's already to that point. And an awful lot of 'em are one or two guys struggling to keep up. So I've been hunting a distro that suits me as well as PCLOS and that has a definite future in the linux ecosystem, but so far have found only tolerable, not "I enjoy using this" and "everything works". So far Fedora/KDE is the least trouble and least annoying but jaysus the performance is nowhere close to PCLOS, which runs like the wind on any piece of crap. Not quite Puppy, but close.
"The Nvidia driver is proprietary and assumed systemd exists on the Linux machine."
Oh. Oh dear. This perhaps explains why a recent attempt to install PCLOS (which happens to be non-systemd) on Default VM Hardware... simply refused to work. And perhaps why on real hardware with random vidcard (would have to check what's in there), Devuan was weird after an update, to where I deemed it "needs a do-over" and Debian refused to update at all.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.