On Sun, Dec 22, 2024 at 01:16:31 -0500, Alex Wahl wrote: > Is there any point to worrying about what's masked and disabled if I don't > have a specific technical reason? The reason I asked it really just because > I'm wondering if I accidentally set a unit to that in the past I shouldn't > have; I don't really know what a "normal" system looks like
A service that's masked can NEVER be activated, by anything, unless it's unmasked first. A service that's disabled won't be started automatically, but it could be activated by a different service. Or started manually.