Same in Linux. No disk encryption and everything is easy accessible if you have physical access.

I love syncthing!! I have one VM with only debian an syncthing and that machine is backed-up frequently. All others PC’s and vm’s syncthing to that one machine.

All of them sync ~/downloads

All machines I use for coding also sync ~/code

My desktop machines sync ~/documents.

And so on. Works great (for me)

I never read such a thing. I never had that myself and run ha on proxmox since many years. on Debian OS on proxmox.