Hi I am fairly familiar with installing Linux systems for myself having done quite a bit of distro hopping along the way before seeking a rolling distro & getting into bed with Opensuse Tumbleweed so I can just roll with it.
With the forthcoming end of life support for Windows 10 I’m planning on installing Opensuse on my wife’s oldish HP laptop, but she is only used to Windows, so I’ll have to be keeping it updated for her or teach her.
Thus I thought I’d give Slow roll a spin so I don’t have to do so many updates as with Tumbleweed. Handily the lap top has a second SSD so I’m planning on installing Slow Roll & GRUB on that & then changing the bios to get it to boot from that SSD instead of the Windows One so we can still boot into that if needs be in the meantime until support ends in the Autumn I think.
Any way cutting to the chase any thoughts on the following and anything else to consider.
Secure boot on or off, I believe the Lap top is currently set to off so maybe I should continue / adhere to that?
Encrypting the drive?
Setting up with a separate Home drive as I’ve seen that offered in a guided install I tried out the other day without going ahead.
Anything else to consider like setting myself up as admin & her as a user?
Other info HP 255 G6 Notebook, AMD A6-9225 Radeon R4 Compute Cores 2C+3G 2600mhz.
BIOS UEFI, Secure Boot - off, 12GB RAM
Kernel DMA Protection Off
TPM not useable for Device Encryption - so I guess that answers the encryption question?
@jjis Then I would suggest Aeon in fallback mode for your encryption requirement. Everything else can be flatpaks, which is how Aeon runs… You won’t get a separate $HOME though, you could add something later for data storage?
NO BIOS update available for TPM 2.0 on that system?
Hi Malcom, thanks for the Aeon suggestion, sounds good, although that’s not one I’ve come across. Is it a variant of the immutable type OS’s like Vanilla(?) that have been springing up recently. Sounds good - would that be available as an option when installing?
Not sure about the TPM 2.0 update on the BIOS, haven’t checked - would that be for Win 11 & encryption? I don’t think the specs otherwise meet the requirements for WIN 11 unless I’m mistaken and it’s just the TPM 2.0 thing?
Ah yes I see it is still in Release candidate mode maybe. So still a few rough edges perhaps and it looks a bit like Gnome desktop on searching for pictures of the desktop. Is that right?