Linux

I don't wanna risk losing anything on the drive thats important .

My Laptop and Phone have encrypted drives, my Desktop doesn't.

i'd really like to. but there is ONE big problem:

Keyboard layouts.

seriously

I hate having to deal with that. when I set up my laptop with ubuntu, I tried at least 3 thymes to make it work, but no matter what I tried I was just locked out of my brand-new system. it cant just be y and z being flipped, I tried that, maybe it was the french keyboard layout (which is absolutely fucked) or something else, but it just wouldnt work.

On my mint PC I have a similar problem with the default layout having weird extra keys and I just sort of work around that, because fuck dealing with terminals again. (when logged in it works, because I can manually change it to the right one.)

Now I do have about a TerraByte of storage encrypted, just for the... more sensitive stuff...

While dealing with the problems I stumbled across a story of a user who had to recover their data using muscle-memory, a broken keyboard, the same model of keyboard and probably a lot of patience. good luck to that guy.

Its that simple.

I can expand my own creativity and store every thought and creative Art, without anybody being able to find out after my death or while someone raids me.

Maybe I stored an opinion against some president, and maybe the government changed its working, which allows police to raid someone for little suspection.

You never know if you ever have something to hide. While things are okay now and today, it might be highly illegal tomorrow.

Those are ideas. But generally its only about the feeling of privacy.

Asahi Linux doesn't support encryption and getting it to work requires a lot of steps and that I reinstall it which I don't have time for, so I don't have it enabled on my laptop, and if it gets stolen or confiscated I'm fucked.

I have it enabled on my server and phone.

Full disk encryption on everything. My Servers, PCs etc. Gives me peace of mind that my data is safe even when the device is no longer in my control.

I started encrypting once I moved to having a decent number of solid state drives as the tech can theoretically leave blocks unerased once they go bad. Before that my primary risk factor was at end of life recycling which I usually did early so I wasn’t overly concerned about tax documents/passwords etc being left as I’d use dd to write over the platters prior to recycling.

I don't encrypt my entire drive, but I do have encrypted directories for my sensitive data. If I did encrypt an entire drive, it would only be the drive containing my data not the system drive.

Yes. I have sensitive info in my PC (work credentials) and in the case of a break-in, last thing I want is to jeopardize my job.

I use encryption on laptops, because they can be stolen in the train, bus, etc. On work desktop, I do so as well, because there are many people around. However, on everything that stay at home, I prefer not to use it to simplifiy things and get more performance.

Almost everything that can be is: laptops, desktop, servers (LUKS), phone (grapheneos)

I would strongly encourage people to encrypt their on site data storage drives even if they never leave the house and theft isn’t a realistic thing that can happen.

The issue is hard drive malfunction. If a drive has sensitive data on it and malfunctions. It becomes very hard to destroy that data.

If that malfunctioning hard drive was encrypted you can simply toss it into an e-waste bin worry free. If that malfunctioning drive was not encrypted you need to break out some heavy tools tool ensure that data is destroyed.

Had nosey cops trying to get into my phones illegally recently.. do not understand people that dont encrypt shit

I don't for a pretty simple reason. I have a wife, if something ever happened to me then she could end up a creek without a paddle. So by not having it encrypted then, anyone kinda technical can just pull data off the drive.

My issue is that I can never remember "a couple more commands" for the life of me. And I use Arch BTW, so the likelihood of me needing those is a bit higher than usual.

I don't but admittedly I don't do much stuff on my laptop that's super secure. it's mainly for gaming and the odd programming project.

It's one of those things where it depends on the computer. My old box that's running win 7 has nothing but music and backed up media files on it, isn't connected to the internet at all, and there's really no point to it being encrypted.

My laptop leaves the house, and is connected, so it gets the treatment. My general purpose PC is, though that was more just because of a random choice rather than a carefully chosen decision. I figured I'd try it for a few weeks, then nuke it if it was a problem. It hasn't been, and I haven't needed to do anything to it that would require a change.

The other people in the house have chosen not to.

I'm not certain I would encrypt my main desktop again, just because it's one more thing to do, and I'm getting lazy lol. I don't have any sensitive files at all, and if things in the world get so bad that some agency is after me, I'm going to be hiding out up in this holler I know, not worrying about leaving a computer behind. Won't be power anyway, and the only shit they'd find is some pirated files.

I'd be more worried about my phone and my main tablet than any of the PCs, and those would either go with me, or get melted down before I left. Thermite is cheap and easy.

I encrypt all my filesystems, boot partitions excluded. I started with my work laptop. It made the most sense because there is a real possibility that it gets lost or stolen at some point. But once I learned how simple encryption is, I just started doing it everywhere. It's probably not gonna come into play ever for my desktop, but it also doesn't really cost me anything to be extra safe.