No, if you want to have other additional partitions other than your root partition and a swap, then please manually partition how you like. I was just showing the "easy" way to install.
IDK that there are many that have tried. Can GRUB read the files (the kernel) from XFS?
No, you are misunderstanding. The actual root partition has to be one of the first 4 (or the /boot partition if you separate it out). GRUB uses the MBR partition table to boot, so it can only 'see' the four partitions contained there (and the Macs emulated MBR does not support extended and logical partitions). The Linux kernel, however, supports the GPT (the real partition table) so once the kernel is loaded, it doesn't matter what partitions there are, it can access any of them. So go ahead and create the separate home partition, just make sure the /boot folder will end up in the 4 'primary' partitions
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