Will installing Secureblue over Fedora Workstation erase my data?

Just to be sure, if I want install SecureBlue over my Fedora 41, it will erase all my data ? And I’d have to reinstall all my applications like RStudio, etc. ? And packages for Python too ?

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Yes, I think. I was in the same case there is one week and I formated my computer (but it was also to completely remove windows). But maybe someone has a solution.

Fedora 41 Workstation or Fedora 41 Silverblue?

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Workstation

You can’t install secureblue from workstation. You’ll have to install silverblue first

Then… does this process will erase everything ?

I’m asking this because installing Fedora 41 workstation was a pain in the ass : I'm about to install Fedora 41

I also have LUKS enabled, so it may be risky…

erase everything ?

Yes of course :slight_smile:

What if my actual main partition is encrypted with LUKS ?

Going from workstation to silverblue means erasing and starting over. No way around it. :slight_smile:

Okay.. do I have to disable/unencrypt all my LUKS partition before installing silverblue ?

@RoyalOughtness I’m asking you this because when I tried to install Fedora 41 over Windows, everything was broken because there was a bitlocker partition. I’m afraid it can be the same with this now

Wiping the disk will wipe the luks headers.

I have no idea about bitlocker. Sounds like it’s a pain by comparison.

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