TL;DR for anybody worried. systemd-tmpfiles --purge was too broad in scope (and has a confusing name) so now you must be more specific when using it to avoid accidentally deleting things.

using systemd instead of rm -Rf is not the Unix way!

Yeah that’s a big one.

Thanks Microsoft

a “bug”

Oh that’s a good normal thing for it to do.

So it doesn’t break userspace anymore?

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