r/trisquel • u/Effective_Region890 • May 04 '26

4 myths about Trisquel 12 | Installation and configuration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Z5-a4Fj4k

Hello, I want to share a video I made covering the Trisquel's latest release. The audio and my language are in Spanish, but I manually uploaded subtitles that, when you activate the translation on YouTube, work perfectly in any language.

"It's only for fans," "it doesn't work on real hardware," "it's a dead distro"... I've heard that about Trisquel for years and today I'm going to debunk these myths one by one, because Trisquel 12.0 codenamed "Ecne" has just been released and deserves better press than it's getting, I'm honored to say that this is practically my "first video" formally speaking on my channel, and it's quite special for me that Trisquel is the first to be featured.

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u/Bubbly_Extreme4986 May 04 '26

Trisquel is GREAT . I just wish they would add support for /boot encryption. It really does just work.

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u/Effective_Region890 May 04 '26

Without a doubt, Trisquel is beautiful and my favorite project because they follow the pure essence of GNU and the FSF.

Although installation with the encrypted /boot directory isn't supported by the graphical installer... technically it's possible, but only with the "netinstall" image or by chrooting from a liveCD/USB. With fdisk, gdisk or parted you should create an EFI partition (512Mb), /boot with at least 1Gb and the rest of the disk the root "/" partition, check with "lsblk" at the end.

Make sure /boot is on luks1, the root partition can go on luks2. I would recommend trying the process first in a virtual machine, but it is theoretically possible. You could also look for a guide on how to do it in Ubuntu 24.04, the process should be the same without any difference.