> cron is a lot nicer imo.

How, exactly ?

I've been a cron user forever, I had never heard of systemd timers until this thread.

A quick internet search shows:

    - Nice clean config in a file (instead of having to edit crontab)
    - Lots of great features that you would have to manually implement and maintain in cron (e.g. missed launches, duplicate runs, random delay, timeouts)

I mean sure, I've got bash script templates that let me solve the problem of preventing duplicate cron job running.

But having seen how easy it is to achieve the same thing with systemd timers whilst not requiring a whole lot of boilerplate code in each shell file ... why wouldn't you switch to systemd timers ? I sure will be.