There's a couple ways to work around the issue, you can just configure systemd to not kill processes that were in the user scope when the user scope is closed i

There's a couple ways to work around the issue, you can just configure systemd to not kill processes that were in the user scope when the user scope is closed in which case it behaves exactly as it did before. Or if you want to keep systemd cleaning up hung applications but not e.g. some script that you typically ran with nohup you can just use systemd-run instead. https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-run.html https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-run... In particular you'd probably want --user so that it runs it under your user instance of systemd and --scope so that it's all run under a scope for that command instead of just a transient service. For most uses of nohup you could literally just make it an alias for systemd-run --user --scope instead.