That would be the easiest solution, since it’s offered during install with many distros.
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That would be the easiest solution, since it’s offered during install with many distros.
Encrypt whole hard drive?
Yes.
Log in automatically?
Yes.


well at least nobody can say you left Nothing in return.


That’s going to make running anything on Windows rather uncomfortable.
Yes, pretty much any Linux distro can be configured to encrypt just the home directory. Whole drive encryption is more common because it’s more secure, obviously.