On 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
On 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