Re: Abandoned my home directory years ago
I ran into serious problems with a home directory some years ago when desktop software became completely confused after an upgrade that didn't understand my old desktop config files. It prompted me to add a separate filesystem for my data files (/home/rt/Data). Anything in /home/rt is pretty much expendable; the more important "files" it contains (my profile, etc.) are actually situated under the "Data" mount point and accessed by symlinks in $HOME. (Seems like the same thing you did.)
I actually don't care about systemd getting into the home directory business... so long as it's optional. As soon as I see that service getting installed, I'll be disabling it from starting up. If it gets to a point where I cannot do that, I'll be singing "Hello Slackware my old friend..." while I'm upgrading my desktop system.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
