A couple times ago when I poked my head back in on my old pal, the Linux Desktop, to see how it was doing, I picked Ubuntu, and, because I'd gotten used to it o

A couple times ago when I poked my head back in on my old pal, the Linux Desktop, to see how it was doing, I picked Ubuntu, and, because I'd gotten used to it on Mac, selected disk encryption at install. This worked fine. Months later (in this case I just left it connected to a TV and occasionally used it for gaming or whatever) I let it do an OS upgrade and it forgot how to read its disk when it rebooted. I spent maybe 30 minutes trying to fix it (former heavy Gentoo user, so I'm comfortable troubleshooting boot—among other—issues) without making any progress at all, then decided that was the end of that particular check-in with desktop linux. Maybe next time (spoiler: nope, though for different reasons. But maybe the next next time...) I haven't tried encrypting a Linux root disk since.