[tde-users] Re: Trying to install TDE on a (relatively) old Debian (9.13)

On 11/17/24 7:01 AM, Thierry de Coulon via tde-users wrote:

I has tried MX but the system was very slow, with a lot of harddisk activity.

I've run into that on occasion on old hardware. You can use Antix instead, or you can tweak the swapfile settings to make it a lot less eager to swap, by adding these lines to /etc/sysctl.conf:

vm.swappiness=1 vm.vfs_cache_pressure=200

A big problem with using a distro as old as Stretch is, you can't run a current browser. I think Firefox 78 is the newest that will run on Stretch, at least in my experience. So as time goes on, it'll be less and less functional online.