I thought it was not recommended to run on bare metal? There are some other obscure OSes that can run fine on bare metal (although Serenity is not really obscure in the foss space, only in the mainstream)

From the sounds of it, it’s just a hobby project for fun for OP. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with doing something just for the sake of it.

I didn’t mean it as nitpicking. I was just responding to you?

I think FDE is different to full partition. If your home partition is encrypted but not your root partition, that’s not FDE. I would say FDE is when the partition that you mount to / is encrypted.