> systemctl reboot -f should be the default for "reboot".
I very much disagree. This is not what I want and certainly you can recognize that this is an unsafe operation, right? Less safe operations should ALWAYS require more work. Not everyone checks and it is also easy to forget or miss something.
I like the --ask-everything option but I'm not sure how the other 2 can work. A crash, especially during shutdown, can have no guarantees of being caught. Or do you mean crashing user programs? Well then that's --force, right? The --wait-indefinitely-ok seems a bit weird too. Shouldn't that be configured in your boot options (or bootctl)? I do think there's reasons you might want this in one situation but not another so flag sounds good.
> If someone’s issuing a reboot, it's because something is wrong
On personal machines: >9/10 times I'm rebooting because I installed a new kernel. Granted I'm usually running an arch distro, but even on other machines it's pretty similar.
On servers, yes, you're right, I reboot far less and am usually rebooting because a specific GPU server has a defective GPU that is often a pain to solve with rmmod and resetting manually, being just far easier to reboot the entire machine.
But I still think it's clear that what you think is "average" or "usual" is not. Literally the fact that you and I disagree on what our typical use cases is proof of this (note: I'm not saying _my average_ use case extrapolates, nor your average use case, nor anyone else I know or even don't know. I'm saying _average_ is not a meaningful thing. I mean this in the same way as taking the average of 2 samples from a normal distribution; doing so gives you a number that is not representative of the distribution).
Some behavior has to be chosen for some invocation.
I continue to express what countless people struggle with and potential usability fixes, and you continue to insist your personal preference is supreme and unilaterally invalidates everyone's frustration.
It's like insisting all cars should have tillers, manual chokes, and hand cranks because you personally like them and then handwaving some "average" argument when someone advocates for easier systems.
And that's the attitude what keeps Linux useful but not usable.
On servers, yes, you're right, I reboot far less and am usually rebooting because a specific GPU server has a defective GPU that is often a pain to solve with rmmod and resetting manually, being just far easier to reboot the entire machine.
But I still think it's clear that what you think is "average" or "usual" is not. Literally the fact that you and I disagree on what our typical use cases is proof of this (note: I'm not saying _my average_ use case extrapolates, nor your average use case, nor anyone else I know or even don't know. I'm saying _average_ is not a meaningful thing. I mean this in the same way as taking the average of 2 samples from a normal distribution; doing so gives you a number that is not representative of the distribution).