Checking for hdd errors (and fixing them) is done automatically in regular intervals during boot by fsck.
Smartmontools can give you all info you need on hdd health.
And disk encryption is handled by LUKS. In all major user-friendly distros (Mint, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, EndeavourOS, Manjaro, Debian, Fedora, Bazzite, …) this can be set up in the graphical installer by clicking a checkbox.
To encrypt a hard drive after installation, there are graphical frontends (KDE partition manager and Gnome Disc Utility).
Checking for hdd errors (and fixing them) is done automatically in regular intervals during boot by fsck.
Smartmontools can give you all info you need on hdd health.
And disk encryption is handled by LUKS. In all major user-friendly distros (Mint, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, EndeavourOS, Manjaro, Debian, Fedora, Bazzite, …) this can be set up in the graphical installer by clicking a checkbox.
To encrypt a hard drive after installation, there are graphical frontends (KDE partition manager and Gnome Disc Utility).