[RndTbl] Linux home directory management is about to undergo major change

[Trevor Cordes]

On 2020-04-30 Trevor Cordes wrote:
> On 2020-04-30 Bradford C Vokey wrote:
> > https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-home-directory-management-is-about-to-undergo-major-change/

Further:

Another article says:
"
Linux assigns UIDs in the order usernames are registered on a machine.
you may get UID 1000 if you are the first user on a laptop and you
could get 1001 on another laptop if you are the second user to be
registered there. This poses a problem if you move a home directory
container from machine A where you're UID 1000 to machine B where you
are 1001. systemd-homed solves this by doing a chown -R on the entire
home directory if there is a conflict.
"

Hahahaha!  Hahaha!  Poettering calls this a solution?  Bwahahaha.  He
has no clue.  Have a file owned by another user in your home dir for a
specific reason?  You just got (meta)data loss.

Also, the entire "sell" of "portable home dirs" is just plain stupid.
Who here is really going to take their home dir around with them on a
dog-slow USB stick and plug it into strange computers?

Oh ya, and say your home computer has GNOME X and LibreOffice Y and
your "other" computer has GNOME X+2 and Libre Y+3... you really think
every program you use will happily accept its config/cache/etc files
suddenly being many versions ahead/behind?

It's just completely insane.  He's promising things that just won't
work and (naive) users who think it's a "good thing" are going to be
miffed when they see it doesn't work in practice.