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Security is an insanely broad topic. As an average desktop user, keep your system up to date, and don't run random programs from untrusted sources (most of the internet). This will cover almost everyones needs. For laptops, I'd recommend enabling drive encryption during installation, though note that data recovery is harder with it enabled.
That is good advice, however sadly a lot of install scripts are basically: download this script from us, and pipe it to a root shell.
Install scripts for what exactly?
Majority of software is packaged natively.
i personally wouldn't recommend encrypted drive for a beginner though
Why not? You (usually) just click the check box during install, and you have 1 extra password when you boot up your system. Doesn't seem too hard but I might be missing something.
when you fuck shit up you can't really easily boot in from a usb drive and learn the recovery process
It's a few extra steps to start fixing, but it's still definitely possible once you get the crypto device mapper.
So long as you know that is the trade off, I would tend to agree with you, but knowing the standard desktop user, most will opt for the opposite of your statement.
Wait what? I don't use mint, but with every other distro you just check the box at install and that is it.
Are you saying its hard to configure after you have already installed? I could imagine it might be, but why not export a list of programs you use and back up the home directory. Reinstall and check the box, restore home, and import your package list?
I don't dual boot, so I guess there is that. But everything else seems very confusing. All other installers say, do you want this encrypted? You click yes. And that's it.
They should not us LUkS and instead use veracrypt for folders and files. That way if any repartitioning or modification is needed it's simple in gparted or GNOME disks on mint.
Source is been there and done that. Luks partitions are not easily resized.