Hehe, no stupid questions I guess! When googling about this type of stuff, I often stumble across some claims I simply cannot verify myself. Some people say it’s unsafe, some people say it slows down everything and so on and some answers are from >10 years ago, so I feel the need to clarify what’s the status quo. Thanks for your view on that!

Good to know. Turns out that linux users are not lost when it comes to this topic!

I will take that into consideration. I already encrypted my older laptop (hard drive) with LUKS. Is there something special, when it comes to encrypting SSD’s? Do you experience speed losses of SSD after doing so?

Sorry, but can you explain a little, how this is done exactly? What should I see, when everything worked correctly?

According to the upvotes, this seems to be the way. I will try that, thank you!

I’m using Debian too. I switched to linux because of privacy reasons and my second thought was that it would be nice if it’s completely developed by an open community without a bigger corporation behind it.

Works great so far. See no reason to change distros.