It’s nice getting a glimpse as to what fraction of Linux users are using disk encryption. Full disk encryption is becoming the default on mainstream OSes, but not in most of the Linux installers I’ve encountered. Always made me curious just how many people went out of their way to encrypt their Linux install.

I personally encrypt everything except for VMs already in an encrypted device or USB drives that need to work with non-Linux machines. It’d be interesting to hear what other people’s reasons to encrypt their disks or not are.

When was this questionnaire posted? I didn’t see it and get a chance to answer.

Also, I treat servers different to desktops due to different threat models. The server automatically applies security updates and keeps most feature updates sitting for a while for stability, but on desktop I just install everything within a couple of days.

I filled your survey. It would be nice if you could share the results once it’s completed.

Question 2 confuses me.

###Do you have automatic update checks enabled on your system?

Yes, with daily checks.

No, automatic updates are disabled.

My system checks daily for updates and notifies me, but doesn’t automatically update. Is this “other,” or “yes”? Is the “no” option meant to say “automatic update[ check]s are disabled”? Or am I misunderstanding what an update check is?

Some of the stuff I would do if my system was held together by more than literally just hopes and dreams.

I propose asking if the person is primarily using a laptop or a desktop computer. For example: I do use disk encryption and Secure Boot on my laptop, but not on my desktop.

Okay, my survey is complete. I posted updated results, with data from 150 responses. The wording on question 2 and 3 might have been too confusing, sorry for that.

Survey seems broken. JavaScript crutches?