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Touching on UI. My experience is the opposite. I started by installing Xubuntu so XFCE desktop. I wanted the GUI shell to be fast and low reasources, and choose XFCE. 16 years later and my desktop shell is the same traveling with me through district hopping to Arch and now NixOS. Same UI and no one’s aiming to change it.

Disk encryption, straightforward luks w/ pass phrase. Setup was 3 terminal commands and and done. Pretty sure the GUI installers you just enter a passphrase and it’s done. All the knobs are available if the default isn’t good enough, using a key file on an external disk, etc.

Poor hdpi is real, it’s bound to change as us old graybeards finally get new monitors