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Discussion on: Game show feeling: How I created a hardware mute button for Linux

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Pascal Thormeier

Thank you for this hint, I wasn't aware of this being possible! Is there any drawbacks to this?

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Dan Jones

I've actually been using systemd to replace my user's crontab recently as well.

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Pascal Thormeier

Oh wow, didn't know this was possible, either! I really need to dig deeper into systemd then, thank you!

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Dan Jones

I've been using it a lot for myself lately. I've only found two downsides.

  1. I sometimes forget to add --user
  2. The user instance of systemd doesn't start until the user's first login. So, if I need something to start right away, even if the user hasn't logged in yet, I need to use the system-wide systemd instead. This has never been a real issue to me, though, since I log in to my user as soon as I boot up the computer.