I’m more interested in independent Linux distributions than their variants (i.e Debian instead of Ubuntu)

• I can apply most (if not all) concepts from the parent distribution to all its derivatives
• I prefer to heavily customize my systems from scratch

I might include notes about BSD (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD) and Solaris in the future.

The “easiest way” to setup systems with full disk encryption is to perform manual installations (IMHO).

• This gives you full flexibility over how things are configured
• This assumes that you’re very comfortable (or resourceful) with the command-line within a chroot environment
• This is not as difficult as you think

• https://docs.voidlinux.org/installation/guides/fde.html
• https://docs.voidlinux.org/installation/guides/chroot.html

• https://gist.github.com/huntrar/e42aee630bee3295b2c671d098c81268
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system#LUKS_on_LVM
• https://medium.com/hacker-toolbelt/arch-install-with-full-disk-encryption-6192e9635281

• https://github.com/myTerminal/dotfiles/blob/master/.setup/docs/install-debian.md

This just requires dnf --installroot similarly to debootstrap (Debian), pacstrap (Arch), etc.

• https://sysguides.com/install-fedora-37-with-luks-full-disk-encryption/
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2#Updating_the_GRUB_configuration_file

• https://github.com/yveszoundi/guix-config
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOYirIzUlW8
• https://www.reddit.com/r/GUIX/comments/q8y808/installing_guix_on_ideapad_1_11igl05/

• https://yellowapple.us/2022/02/10/slackware-crypt-efi-only.html
• https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardware:syncing_hardware_clock_and_system_local_time

TBD

TBD: NixOS, Gentoo, Crux, ClearLinux, Kiss Linux, Chimera Linux