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I think on laptops Windows i trying to encrypt the drives. Maybe online if you are logged in to a Microsoft account for bitlocker to save the encryption key. Encrypting the drives should be your decision to take.
Yes, my sister bought a laptop it had windows and bitlocker installed.
She doesn't know what any of those things are nor does she have an encryption key.
So she was not able to resize her partition to try to dual boot linux - she'd have to totally kill windows (which I suggested, of course, but you know. . . ).
It stops her doing what she wants because she was given something she doesn't understand by people who didn't explain it. At least she is "safe" though according to someone else's definition. I guess coud've just said "Basically, microsoft" for short.
Microsoft makes all the decisions for you.
Try using a virtual machine before doing a full switch