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Especially if he’s going to be doing some gaming, I’ve had great luck with the Debian Sid based distro Siduction.
In most cases, you don’t have anything to fear, since the encryption on Android phones is pretty good these days. However if you really feel like it could compromise you in any way, I can’t imagine a hammer wouldn’t do the trick.