I also had errors in my .emacs many times and had no issues, until one day. > I don't see your experience as a reason to not to do it this way. That's fine. I

I also had errors in my .emacs many times and had no issues, until one day. > I don't see your experience as a reason to not to do it this way. That's fine. I simply offer it as a cautionary tale. It's possible that systemd on Nix handles things more gracefully than systemd on Arch (though it seems unlikely).