What distro are you using, and how difficult was it for you to get started with it?

I’m currently making a list of distros and looking at each’s pros and cons, including:

• what did work out of the box?
• what required more work to fix / workaround?

May i suggest a technique for remembering the password?

write it down

but instead of writing down the password, write down questions that only you can reasonably answer. For example:

• what was the name of the first girl i kissed?
• where did i go to on summer camp?
• which special event happened there?

and the answer would be: “mary beach rodeo” or idk what. this way, you construct a password out of multiple words that each are an answer to a simple question.

Only encrypt the home partition, for the root partition it just unnecessarily slows down the system.

Also, I think, there could be different approaches instead of encryption. AFAIK, android doesn’t use encryption underneath, but uses a semi-closed bootloader (which means, if you install a different OS, all user data gets wiped). I’m currently investigating the feasibility of such an approach in the long term.