> I just received my first librebooted machine, the X200 Thinkpad. Thank you
vikings!
You're most welcome! =)
> 1. How much of a hit does performance take with full disk encryption? My
past experiences show that performance does take a very significant hit when
encrypting /home. But maybe I was doing it wrong? My new X200 feels really
fast and responsive, but I didn't try anything more demanding than using
abrowser yet...
That's because the X200 is a reasonably fast machine. Still. After all these
years.
Performance will drop with full disk encryption, mostly when accessing
storage. If you want to know how much, simply run a benchmark and compare an
encrypted to a non-encrypted system.
> 2. How difficult is it to install a GNU/Linux on the X200 with libreboot? I
read the documentation on libreboot.org and it mentions typing in commands in
the grub menu, and manually creating a grub configuration after install to
get a bootmenu and prevent manually typing boot commands each time. Is that
actually required for all machines with libreboot?
You install GNU/Linux on a system with Libreboot as on any other machine.
There is no need to change GRUB in the payload to install GNU/Linux. But you
can, and that is reasonably well described on the Libreboot website. Note
there are many ways to do full disk encryption...
