This is not a reason to prevent switching, quite the opposite. Encryption is an awesome thing, and should always be used. It also inevitably causes slowdowns, but the best case is that it’s practically nonexistent of a performance hit. Not a lot of Linux distros let you set up luks root encryption in the installer, and it’s still pretty tricky to setup. But also if you’re using Linux, you should always be using luks encryption if you can as well.
Most Linux installers let you set up a LUKS root partition these days, though the option is off by default. I think Ubuntu doesn’t even use an unencrypted /boot in the latest version.
Admittedly, setting up encryption manually is kind of a pain (two or three layers of partitions, then updating the UUIDs in fstab, adding an entry in crypttab, recreating initramfs and the bootloader config) but you don’t need to do that on most fresh installs.
What Linux lacks is an easy way to switch to using encryption. In Windows you can just enable and disable encryption post install. In Linux, you’ll need to repartition your drive.
This is not a reason to prevent switching, quite the opposite. Encryption is an awesome thing, and should always be used. It also inevitably causes slowdowns, but the best case is that it’s practically nonexistent of a performance hit. Not a lot of Linux distros let you set up luks root encryption in the installer, and it’s still pretty tricky to setup. But also if you’re using Linux, you should always be using luks encryption if you can as well.
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Most Linux installers let you set up a LUKS root partition these days, though the option is off by default. I think Ubuntu doesn’t even use an unencrypted /boot in the latest version.
Admittedly, setting up encryption manually is kind of a pain (two or three layers of partitions, then updating the UUIDs in fstab, adding an entry in crypttab, recreating initramfs and the bootloader config) but you don’t need to do that on most fresh installs.
What Linux lacks is an easy way to switch to using encryption. In Windows you can just enable and disable encryption post install. In Linux, you’ll need to repartition your drive.