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michaelmroseOn a single user system which either hibernates or shuts fully down you might as well long in automatically after you type in your 16 character encryption pass phrase. A login screen does not in any way provide additional security. Note this doesn’t actually prevent you from locking the screen and unlocking still requires your password.
But I think ‘encrypt home directory’ only encrypts your home partition, not your root partition. Not sure why many distros offer only this option in the graphical installer
encrypt your home directory stated as such doesn’t mean encrypt ANY partition. Distros that offer this normally use ecryptfs. encrypting your partition uses LUKS. They use ecryptfs because its easy and doesn’t effect the boot up process. Full disk (or partition) uses LUKS