Thanks for the heedings my fellow foSSers…
Just wiped this laptop and now re-installing 18.04.5 and using full disk encryption (the default version that ships with boobuntu)…
Got it syncing my 200 GB of Resilio Sync data now - got checkpoint SSL VPN client installed… next up configure zsh with oh-my-zsh and then do-release-upgrade… hmmm… remmina… sayonara, Google Chrome… tmux… ipcalc… inkscape, gimp, kolourpaint… vlc… synergy… keypassX / keepass2… gnome tweaks… that should just about do it…
I no longer need 18.04 to install Citrix ICA client - I’d been using 13.x of it - and only realised the other day that “Citrix Workspace App 2006”, is actually version 20.06 - STOOPID naming / versioning - “2006” makes it sounds so noughties - “Hey Citrix - the noughties called they want their post Y2K stuff back!”
Should be all sync’d and updated ready to take to the office tomorrow morning (working 2-3 days a week at the office of late) - and if it gets “half inched” (rhyming slang for stolen - i.e. “pinched”) or lost - the data’s encrypted…
Having separate vaults with VeraCrypt proved unworkable, and I’m pretty sure it slowed Resilio Sync down… it was always playing catch up with the master (we’re not allowed to say that anymore are we? or is it just slave that’s bad?) - whereas I didn’t notice this happening when I previously used boobuntu’s whole disk encryption…
Note: this laptop supports both UEFI and legacy - but I use UEFI - just seems faster…