New user : a question

Hi,

I just switched from Fedora to Bluefin, and I must say I am very satisfied. It’s a stellar distribution, and I already see why atomic is the way of the future. Even on the “latest” branch (I do some gaming, so I like to have the latest kernel and Mesa release), it has been a more stable and responsive system than Fedora!

I was able to set up everything to my taste (installing MegaSync in a Fedora container was the hardest, because my files are on a second hard drive, but after trying to mess with fstab to mount it in the container, I realized that a simple symbolic link would do the job!), but I still have one single question.

Because of a regression in the kernel, my bluetooth chip is impairing sleep/hibernation on my system. I need to create a simple script and run it as a service to deal with that. Fortunately, /etc is writable, so I was able to do so, but I read that may cause some problems down the line. I also read somewhere that there is another way to run a systemd service without messing with /etc, but I am having a hard time to find documentation on how to do so.

If someone could point me toward some solution, that would be much appreciated.

Again, a big thank you to the devs / maintainers of Bluefin/Silverblue. This is the most exciting and forward-looking Linux project I have seen in the last decade!

TLDR : How can I run a systemd service without messing with /etc?

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Local services for your machine live in /etc/systemd/system just like everywhere else - do you have a link to the docs that say this is a problem?

There it is. It’s from 2019, so I do not know if this still applies. Please understand that I’m a simple user, not a programmer or a tech guy (I’m a teacher), so I try to do my best to do my research, understand what is going on and troubleshoot my system, but I still have a lot to learn.