[shoknawe]

Veracrypt https://veracrypt.io/en/Home.html

[sandworm101]

https://linuxmint.com/

https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop

https://archlinux.org/

https://www.kali.org/get-kali/#kali-platforms

https://fedoraproject.org/

Every bad day for microsoft is yet another glorious day for linux.

[smartmic]

> Every bad day for microsoft is yet another glorious day for linux.

Nah. If that were the case, Linux would dominate personal computer statistics. The reality is that most mainstream users just don't care. But, of course, that won't stop us.

[jmclnx]

You forgot to list Slackware :)

http://www.slackware.com/

http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware64-current/ChangeLog.tx...

[bdavbdav]

And MacOS, which I suspect may be the more obvious choice for many users.

[Vaslo]

To people on HN considering the switch, maybe. My family has zero interest or intention of trying any of these. It stops with me.

[dmichulke]

One could almost say "Embrace the penguin"

[Bender]

And before that and before Trucrypt many used Jetico BestCrypt [1] not free... It can pretend the OS disk is invalid until a passphrase is typed. Only useful to fool smash-and-grab trash level thieves but I found it entertaining.

Either way once the Windows OS volume is unlocked it's all moot. There are many other ways to access ones machine remotely such as pushing a targeted update to the specific machine OS agnostic but easiest on Windows as Windows update fires off all the time despite patches being on a specific Tuesday. This method applies to phones as well, beyond the JTAG encryption bypass at power-up. Then a gag order is applied.

[1] - https://jetico.com/data-encryption/encrypt-hard-drives-bestc...

[whoopdedo]

Let us not forget that the predecessor to VeraCrypt, TrueCrypt, was suddenly discontinued and users were told they should migrate to BitLocker.

There were questions about their motivation at the time. There still are questions.