Firstly, Ubuntu Alternate CD has an excellent installer, it's not text-based as in you have to type in commands, or compile anything, it's just like the Windows

Firstly, Ubuntu Alternate CD has an excellent installer, it's not text-based as in you have to type in commands, or compile anything, it's just like the Windows XP installer, except for all the sideloading of drivers. You can set up an encrypted LVM, or whatever partitioning scheme you like, the default settings also seemed very sensible so you don't even have to touch anything. Secondly, regular Ubuntu installer offers to encrypt your home dir.