Encrypted Void Linux Install on my ThinkPad X1 Carbon
Posted by Dave Eddy on Sep 05 2018 - tags: techI purchased the ThinkPad X1 Carbon (6th Gen) laptop about a month ago and have been loving it. My friend Mike convinced me to get it after showing me how nice his was and how well Linux ran on it. I hadn’t run Linux on a laptop or a desktop since around 2010, as I had switched over to almost exclusively OS X.
I installed Manjaro when I got the laptop and used it for a couple of weeks just to get used to Linux again (and the i3 Window Manager). However, this was also my first experience with systemd, and, after using it for a bit, I really wanted something a whole lot simpler. Something that was designed to be lean, easy to understand, and easy to manage.
Enter Void Linux.
To install Void Linux, I basically copied the steps in this wiki page:
https://wiki.voidlinux.eu/Manual_install_w/full_disk_encryption
with the modifications at the bottom for EFI/UEFI machines.