I quickly ran a backup just now, but I would've been one of the people slightly effected. I symlink some of the desktop cache files to /var/tmp, but since that

I quickly ran a backup just now, but I would've been one of the people slightly effected. I symlink some of the desktop cache files to /var/tmp, but since that never got deleted for me (on Debian and Manjaro) I also started linking things like my browser profile there. I kind of knew that /var/tmp may not be the correct folder for it, but if it works, it works you know. A bit of background on my setup, for why I even want to create such symlinks. My home folder is on an automatically mounted USB stick that I transfer between systems (laptop and desktop). On shutdown, I rsync the home folder to a local backup folder, which gives me a small distributed backup system. Using the same home directory between systems with different distributions and CPU architectures (I'm using the pinebook pro arm laptop) works surprisingly well. But I'd rather not stress the USB stick with a bunch of frequently accessed cache files, hence the symlink. I end up also symlinking the browser profile, because that caused version incompatibilities between systems, and I'm ok with having local browser settings/history on each device.