On October 3, 2021 10:18:32 PM CDT, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
>Requirements:
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>- my PC is a low-end machine with Intel i3 CPU
>
>- my Linux admin experience is low to medium (been using Linux for about
>20 years, but mostly "if it works, don't fiddle with it")
>
>- I want to run TDE.
>
>What would you recommend?
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Steve

On GNU/Linux, I always stuck with Devuan using Sysvinit. It works great with TDE but the repos are *extremely* slow in the US, at least the southeastern portion where I'm from (and it doesn't help that my internet is only a megabyte ahead of dialup), so it may not be the best alternative.

I use FreeBSD now with TDE R14.0.10 so if you want another option this is always viable (albeit painful for the time being). I plan on writing a tutorial for it one day. Since you have a low end machine I would stick with the UFS file system since ZFS likes to eat your memory.