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  • It's disappointing to see so many commentors arguing against you wanting to do this. Windows has it through bitlocker which is secured via the TPM as you know. Yes it can be bypassed, but it's all about your threat level and effort into mitigating it.

    I am currently using a TPM on my opensuse tumbleweed machine to auto unencrypt my drive during boot. What you want to do is possible, but not widely supported (yet). Unfortunately, the best I can do is point you to the section in the opensuse wiki that worked for me.

    https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Encrypted_root_file_system

    If you scroll down on that page you'll see the section about TPM support. I don't know how well it will play with your OS. As always, back up all your files before messing with hard drive encryption. Best of luck!






  • I think you're going to have a lot better experience with plasma 5.27, they've done a lot of bug fixes since 5.25.

    I've been running tumbleweed for a few years on a few different computers, I've only had an issue a few times, but it has a built in method to revert to a save point before the problematic update, so it's super easy to undo and wait a few days to upgrade again. You can also look at slowroll, it's tumbleweed on a slower release, though I'm not sure it's out yet. I definitely recommend it over kubuntu though, I was originally using kubuntu but switched due to wifi driver issues.

    If you want to stick to an Ubuntu based system, you could try neon, but it's built on top of the Ubuntu stable releases so the packages are generally a lot older. It didn't solve my wifi problems so I gave tumbleweed a shot.


  • If you suspect stability issues due to newish hardware, downgrading is very rarely the way to go (unless the bug was introduced by a recent update).

    Bugs get reported and fixed so you want to be doing the opposite, running a newer version of KDE and the kernel.

    Have you enabled kde backports? If you're going to wipe the computer anyway, maybe give Tumbleweed a shot? It's running the latest everything while still being quite stable.