eCryptfs

This is an effective tool to encrypt your home folder, which natively works with Ubuntu-based distros. It may be old, but there's no evidence that ecryptfs has ever been compromised.

I used this tool because I didn't want to use LVM or full disk encryption on my Linux install due to too many headaches around restore efforts.

"eCryptfs was super powerful, with hundreds of options and supported configurations, but all of that proved far to difficult for users at large. So I set out to simplify it drastically, with an opinionated set of basic defaults. I started with a simple command to mount a "Private" directory inside of your home directory, where you could stash your secrets. A few months later, on a long flight to Paris, I managed to hack a new PAM module, pam_ecryptfs.c, that actually encrypted your entire home directory! This was pretty revolutionary at the time -- predating Apple's FileVault or Microsoft's Bitlocker, even. Today, tens of millions of Ubuntu users have used eCryptfs to secure their personal data."

This software sucks and is so outdated. Its better to use veracrypt or LUKS cause you can't access your home folder using this software, if you were to repair your computer in a live cd, its just so much pain to use and then setting up repositories just to download this software and you have to do it every time you reboot! Not worth using!