I installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS about a year ago. Now that 26.04 is out, I was planning to upgrade, but instead I think I'm going to wipe and re-install from scratch. Does anyone have any tips or tweaks they recommend for new installs? Things like, do or don't encrypt the drive during the install process, make an administrator account separate from your regular user account? I already plan to install the Flatpak repo and the Gnome Software Center.

Thanks!

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[–] 7 points 5 months ago

Especially if you are on a laptop and work on it, I'd definitely encrypt the drive during install.

I've encrypted my partitions on my PC too to be extra preventative of attacks coming from other operating systems i dual boot that run more random software (and are potentially more risky but probably not and I'm maybe paranoid idk, just sounded like I was being smort).

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