Congratulations you have discovered the new hotness being forced upon Linux community (only 17 years in development and counting lol) isn’t so hot.

My favourite quote from the linked article:

“Instead of providing a better way of doing something, common features are not supported at all, and instead it’s the job of everyone else in the ecosystem to agree on a standard. That’s not a stunning argument in favor of replacing something that already exists and that has already been standardized in X11!”

citation -

Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years

https://omar.yt/posts/wayland-set-the-linux-desktop-back-by-10-years

My solution: Use a NAS on my Lan to store files which backs up to an OVH S3. The S3 is accessible from Android or Linux if required.

Your experience may vary but I soon closed the account after buying their promises. Lousy speeds, lousy interopability and lousy support.

• I am on Fibre to the premises connection

I’m always interested in Micheal’s comparisons but rarely see anything more than an illustration of newer libraries etc showing natural improvements. The trade off of Arch distros is the increased workload of managing a constant change & inevitable instability. Arch devs are notoriously for kicking out capricious system borking changes and the Pacman package manager is rather weak at dealing with cumulative changes. 2% or 3 % potential ephemeral improvements in speed vs hovering over the cli ‘fixing’ things seems a poor bargain to me.

Exactly. systemd has a glaring security hole that had to be kludged. As the OP I posted the article to warn non technical users of the danger but systemd defenders league are predictably blind to any possible flaw in their golden calf and cannot resist the temptation to rush to battle. yawn

Any errant application can expose this glaring systemd flaw