> Still, seems like this should be done at the distro package level. This can be done at the distro package level. Packagers would edit /etc/systemd/logind.con

> Still, seems like this should be done at the distro package level. This can be done at the distro package level. Packagers would edit /etc/systemd/logind.conf and set KillUserProcesses=no to disable it. It's a single line change if people don't like the new default. The behavior itself (killing user processes when the session ends) is quite sensible, and should have been the default over a decade ago, but people got used to terrible defaults and are now complaining. This is handled at the packager/admin level, but they merged a patch two days ago (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/3373 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/3373) to fix the policy to let users manage it themselves with loginctl enable-linger. I think it missed the v230 merge window, but could easily be backported individually or at the distro level until the next release. So, not only can the behavioral decision be managed entirely at the distro level, that decision can be punted down to the individual user if they don't want to explicitly mark the processes they want to continue running.