There are plenty of reasons to not want FDE or not want just FDE alone. Shared computer, your data isn't safe if you share the FDE password with another user who needs to share the system. He said he's paranoid, so he is wanting his data encrypted above all. Home directory encryption, especially on top of FDE, while a performance hit, would do well for that. But most importantly, he said FDE isn't practical for him, end of FDE story.
He doesn't need to explain why he doesn't like FDE, there are plenty of reasons. Shared device, or maybe 2nd level of encryption, whatever. He already said it wasn't what he wanted, the why is none of your business. If you can answer his question, do. If you can't, just say you can't. His preference is his preference. Now, you going to help the guy or not?
Also, I honestly don't give a flying f if I get downvoted for telling you what you did wrong. Being in the right is all I need, thanks. Won't be seeing your reply, blocking you before you try to be more of a smug ass.
I can't speak to most Linux communities, but yeah... that one needs to be defunded, shut down, and that mod never left in charge of anything official for the KDE community ever again. Total gatekeeper.
Wayland needed that core functionality from the start. They chose not to include it, it was so short sighted. That's why waypipe was created, to cover the huge gap they created. It came too late, it didn't support remote windowing, and by the time someone glued that hack onto the side of wayland, it was too late. It was already hated for neglecting the primary use of X windows. That hate doesn't go away unless they internalize the functionality into wayland itself, and take significant steps toward re-implementing all the features of X they ignored and turn it into a real X12. X12 doesn't have to be from X11 code base, but it does need to do all X11 did, and more, and fully support X11 apps, natively, inside wayland itself, not through Frankensteinian bolted on the side hacks. I've said what's wrong with waypipe a few times now. It's an ADD ON. Think Firefox extension or plug-in. Not properly included in the original base product, but added on by others. That will never be as elegant and pure as a fully integrated built in solution. Waypipe only exists because wayland was purposefully made incomplete.
It's not X12, and not even half of what X11 was. It was made by people with all the wrong agendas and it still took them over 10 years to come up with something not even half of what X11 was. It (Wayland)... needs... to... die... So that proper resources can be dedicated to making of X12. And if possible, make it forever impossible for any games that aren't Linux native, or just no games at all, which is even better. So many hours wasted on making that wayland and the same for games, resources that should have always been spent on making a real X12.
After years of it sucking, yeah. Would have been much faster if that stumbling block of games was never in the way to start with. It took forever for it to even approach being stable. It's a hack. It's not proper. It's supporting gaming studios writing for Windows, not Linux. That is wrong. Get that through your heads!
Don't say that. It is not in wayland. That is waypipe, the kluge written to overcome the shortcoming of wayland. They are not the same thing, and it's disingenuous for you to say so.
Of course they do not want to admit they were defeated by something better than they could ever produce themselves, as evidenced by their product, Wayland. They inherited the X11 code from their betters and didn't know what to do with it. They not only didn't know how to maintain it, they didn't understand the WHY behind it doing all that it does. So they went out and decided to make the same roomba like mistakes that were made ages ago all over again, ignoring all the lessons learned by their betters. As for me being it's maintainer, I know my limits. They didn't, got in a tiff, and started over and made ... that terribly incomplete thing.
No, I think the young upstarts didn't bother to learn. They wanted their own toy. Damn right I don't like it was added later. It should have been the first thing! Period! Faster boot times, games, and other toys don't matter. FULL backwards compatibility, stability are all that matters. Pretty doesn't matter.
There are plenty of reasons to not want FDE or not want just FDE alone. Shared computer, your data isn't safe if you share the FDE password with another user who needs to share the system. He said he's paranoid, so he is wanting his data encrypted above all. Home directory encryption, especially on top of FDE, while a performance hit, would do well for that. But most importantly, he said FDE isn't practical for him, end of FDE story.