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If you are asking if you can delete /home - NO. /home is where all of your user files are, and without it even logging in might fail.
Ecrypt files are containers for encrypted disks, so if you delete them then you could lose so lme encrypted stuff.
I have never used Mint, so I don't know what it uses for installs.
Not looking to delete '/home/' but '/home/.ecryptfs'
Caution! .ecryptfs is used for an encrypted home directory. I would assume the size is because of Sims 4. Check with
mountwhether your real home dir is mounted via ecryptfs.If you want to be sure, delete some big files in your home dir and check if ecryptfs gets smaller. If you delete it, you lose all personal files on that machine.