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One important benefit will be, that it discards the key when locking the screen (when integrated in the DE). So the drive is protected when you are not at your machine. The old mechanism only discards the key when restarting the computer. But who shuts his/hers laptop down...
Thx for the clarification.
I'm one of those persons that (tries to) shut their computer off every time they're not using it — waste less energy, you know, stuff like that ;)
May s.b. will steal your laptop, when you are at lunch 😀
In general I'm with, but the standby current is really low, especially when writing the memory to disk...
when locking the screen, or when logging out?
if it's the former, how will running programs not crash?
When locking the screen. The running programs will freeze until you unlock it again.
oh. is this optional? on a laptop it's a good idea, but on my desktop I wouldn't want it
This is up to the implementation of the DE 😀
Also on the phone you want probably listen to music, when it is locked.
Gnome plans to add some options like, if you want to use this feature at all or lock securely only after X time after screen is locked. But I think. the implementation hasn't really started yet
For sure all DE will provide some options.