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It's an unnecessary layer of complexity. I am the only user of my personal laptop. I don't need fine-grained permissions. Linux users and groups are enough for any permission needs I might have, like docker group, audio and video groups, etc. I don't have any "classified" documents on my computer. My home directory and root are on different disks. I can easily format and reinstall my system if something goes wrong and keep all my personal data.
Having your home directory on a different disk is something that could've saved me a lot of headache. Can't believe I didn't think of that.
In a lot of distros at least, you can just reinstall in place, which has the same effect. But a different place for /home does feel a potentially more reliable method.
I think it's becoming default on more and more Linux installers
It used to be. I think it changed at some point to make installs easier for new people who were used to only having a single C:.
Fedora still does it (and it uses btrfs subvolumes, so they're resizable)