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Re:NixOS and Flakes Book: An unofficial book for beginners (... by seqizz on Monday October 09, 2023 @04:17PM (#37824971)
I once saw someone who declared their user's home folder under /etc so they can do it without home manager. Nice out-of-the box thinking.
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Re:NixOS and Flakes Book: An unofficial book for beginners (... by OJFord on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @09:39AM (#37831955)
I do sometimes think Linux could do with being single user, and retaining a separate no-login non-user ('roles'?) permission system for 'mail', 'cups', and the like.

As far as I'm aware multi-user (as in human login users) Linux systems are almost entirely - literally - academic. Supporting it does leave some warts and complexity to be experienced by the majority single-user system users.

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