I’ve only have Windows experience with BitLocker encryption. Slowdown is only in the start while the drive is being encrypted and even that is not too bad. Once the drive is encrypted, you wouldn’t have any noticeable slowdowns.

I like this. I would probably over complicate things with a index CSV file (or SQL) that stores checksum values of files to identify renamed or moved files.

Thank you for opening my eyes to a mixed possibility of distributions. I have dabbed your comment for when I got some more time to fiddle with my machine

Hmm, seems that you might be right. I haven’t tried but remember that there were both rpm and dep packages, however it looks like after Teams 2.0 came, the native packages are no longer a thing.

Bookworm was, for me, the first one that installed fine for me. I love the philosophy of Debian but I might also like Arch - the bleeding edge is very attractive and I think I like AUR, however I need to understand how that works some more, before daring to do the jump.

You can also get Teams on Linux

Back in the DOS and Windows 3.1 days, they tried to lock it down with whatever software they had. We found a way around it. Even the DOS based menu system, we managed to copy the menu software out with its configuration file. Then we experimented with the “encrypted” password in the configuration file and found out that if we removed it, the system would allow you to do anything but that also meant we could create our own password and look at the “encrypted” password. We quickly found out that it was just shifting the ASCII table. We then “decrypted” the school password. Such 12 your old hackers 😆

Any respectable company with Windows would be using BitLocker - full disk encryption. It’s super easy to setup if your computer has TPM, fully transparent for the user in most cases.