> With Linux, crypsetup and lvm I wanted to kill myself.
With what, Linux from scratch or something? Eg: Debian has had "encrypt disk" in the installer for a long time. Granted, if you want a super custom setup - it's trickier - but then it kind of is inherently more complex.
Slackware, Arch, and most non-Debian and Fedora based distros. And, even on Debian/Fedora derivs, on troubleshooting, encrypting HD drives under GNU/Linux has always been hell.
Slackware is pretty manual I admit. The installer does not actually provide an automatic partitioning scheme at all, you boot from the installation media, set the keyboard, and drop into a root shell and run fdisk/cfdisk on the fixed disk you want to install to and set up your partitions as you want. That is for any installation, unencrypted or encrypted.
Using an lvm set up is about half way through the document above. These docs come on the installation media. Same kind of idea as with OpenBSD - partition hard drive so small partition just to boot off then the rest of the disk to house encrypted lvms with swap, home, root whatever. Then run the 'setup' program as usual to actually install to your lvms.
Other distributions (e.g. RHEL/Debian based) make it a push button exercise.
With what, Linux from scratch or something? Eg: Debian has had "encrypt disk" in the installer for a long time. Granted, if you want a super custom setup - it's trickier - but then it kind of is inherently more complex.