Yup. You need to enable the "linger" stuff, so that jobs work when the user isn't around. But I deploy a lot of services running as specific users and it work

Yup. You need to enable the "linger" stuff, so that jobs work when the user isn't around. But I deploy a lot of services running as specific users and it works well. Good overview here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd/User https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd/User (You can install global services, and add `user=x`, etc, obviously. But I like to keep things self-contained.)