• TootSweet@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Systemd does everything including cron functionality. Timers are the Systemd equivalent of lines in /etc/crontab. Arch doesn’t even have a cron application pre-installed. (But does have Systemd.) So in short, timers are kindof the idiomatic way to run things on a schedule in Arch.