Coming back to Trisquel
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It's been almost a month since I've been using Mint on my libreebooted x200. Somehow, with the added functionalities that Mint had with proprietary software, I have become tired of Mint. I'm going back to Trisquel. Are there any recommendations on installing Trisquel for this kind of hardware (trisquel version, DE...)? Thanks.
I think it's personal to you. I use Triskel with KDE, but some prefer LXDE which comes with Trisquel Mini, since it is 'lighter'. The version you should use is aramo or Trisquel 11.0.
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In my experience, Trisquel MATE (the default) works fine on an X200. I never tried KDE.
When I use the installation with encryption and LVM, immediately after installing, I remove the logical volume of the /home filesystem and enlarge the logical volume of the root filesystem to take all remaining disk space, to avoid the risk of running out of disk space on the root filesystem at some later point. It is easier to do this when the /home filesystem is empty. But this is not absolutely necessary, resizing the logical volumes later if needed also works.
>In my experience, Trisquel MATE (the default) works fine on an X200. I never tried KDE.
same experience here,
you can also free the bios on that laptop if you want to.
With Mate never had a problem.
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almost forgot, welcome back!
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Why not just disable the lvm and repartition at installation time; that's even easier.
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> Why not just disable the lvm and repartition at installation time
For this setup, LVM is necessary to have the volume for the root filesystem and for the swap "partition" (poor name here) in the same physical volume for encryption.
I already did this setup with the manual partioning using the netinstaller but it requires many more steps because you have to create everything, and it is not very intuitive so I usually had doubts and made mistakes. By using the default partitioning, you are saving a lot of steps. After a default install with encryption, the process is (from memory, I would need to recheck the lvremove and lvresize commands):
boot on live usb
sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda4 sda4_crypt
sudo lvremove vgtrisquel/home
sudo lvresize -r -l 100%FREE vgtrisquel/root
sudo mount /dev/mapper/vgtrisquel-root /mnt
edit /mnt/etc/fstab to delete the line with /home
sudo umount /mnt
reboot