Seriously you guys. I love tinkering. I never give up. I feel like I’ve failed here, having used about 4 promising tutorials found online. Just can’t make it all play right.

So here’s my end goal: RAID __ (mobo has x3 M.2 slots) across x3 one TB nvme drives (I have 1 nvme drive right now, but this is good to plan for NOW)

1TB nvme drive with 3 Linux OSes:

120GB to Ubuntu Studio 22.04 Jammy LTS

120GB to Debian 12 LTS “Bookworm”

120GB to Qubes-OS

That’s 360GB/1TB so far.

512GB shared btrfs encrypted Home partiton for all the OSes to use.

872GB/1TB on the nvme M.2 drive.

Finally… 128GB encrypted space for… stuff.

1TB/1TB usage on nvme M.2 drive

Hotay.

So what I run into, is a fight between Ubuntu Studio (Debian-based) and my GNU/Linux Debian OSes.

Ubuntu Studio offers to encrypt the /boot partiton in the LVM.

Debian12 shrieks this isn’t possible (encrypting the /boot partiton in the LVM).

But they’re both Debian-based. So there has to be common ground here.

I haven’t even wrestled with Qubes-OS installation (OS #3) at this point (have used it in the past, it’s delightful).

So. I’m going to wipe it all again for the umpteenth time, and I await your suggestions, pearls of wisdom, and potential “pitfalls/gotcha’s” regarding my vision.

Thank you in advance, you’re wonderful!