I just wish systemd would upstream the ProxMox pve-efiboot-tool. The thing works great, it syncs multiple ESPs on different disks for redundancy and it just has

I just wish systemd would upstream the ProxMox pve-efiboot-tool. The thing works great, it syncs multiple ESPs on different disks for redundancy and it just has a hook to run on kernel updates, etc. /boot isn't even left mounted during normal operation and only gets mounted to update the contents meaning it's less likely to experience corruption during a power failure or accidentally get deleted by some script gone awry, etc. Systemd also supports using kexec to reboot a machine booted with systemd-boot for faster OS updates. Of course you can use kexec without all of that, but anyone who has knows that it's not exactly streamlined whereas with systemd-boot it'll use the kernel image, initrd, and kernel cmdline straight from what the bootloader is configured for. For UEFI it really is great, only thing "missing" IMHO is support for adding boot entries for EFI stub kernels directly to skip the bootloader entirely for the fast path and rely on the UEFI bootloader if you need access to systemd-boot or an older kernel. Not too relevant for servers where it shaves off like 700 ms or so but still a neat trick and I like my desktop booting without an extraneous extra bootloader when it's not needed.