I personally only encrypt /home: one box to click in Trisquel's installer. Interesting things (in the worst case passwords) might be found in my swap if my computer is stolen. By curiosity, I have just 'grep'ped my password... and found it. :-S
On the "part about installing software", GNUbahn and I recently wrote
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/cloning-system-or-how-make-copy-installed-packages-one-computer-another
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