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Moving to LUKS

Privacy Guides Community [Unofficial] May 19, 2026
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Thanks for taking the time to write this, appreciate it. Could you explain the practical implications? I really like the idea of using SELinux, security is important to me, how much of a difference does that actually make? I agree it’s silly LM doesn’t enable FDE by default, I guess it’s trying to appeal to people moving from Windows and they might think it’s weird to enter a password twice. That being said, I hugely regret not opting for LUKS. I kind of thought Linux was some hackerman shit but honestly it’s easier than Windows, at least with Mint, is Fedora pretty much the same? I have used TailsOS too which was really straightforward. I am not really a technical user, though over the course of using Mint I now use the terminal quite a lot, for stuff like vim, ffmpeg, pdfunite, and general system stuff. Ubuntu just seems like a bloated and corporate version of Linux Mint tbh, never understood why someone would choose to use that over Mint. A huge priority, maybe the biggest for me, is stability. I love tinkering for hours with stuff when I am in the mood, but if I have a deadline and need to get shit done, I cannot play around with drivers all day. With LM, I have literally not had a single thing I have had to do to fix stuff. Maybe a reboot the whole time. How much more “work” is Fedora in this respect?

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