Note if you installed with a local account and expect Bitlocker to work: make sure to actually enable it. With a local account. Bitlocker may state that it's o

Note if you installed with a local account and expect Bitlocker to work: make sure to actually enable it. With a local account. Bitlocker may state that it's on, but by default, it doesn't encrypt the drive unless you log in to a Microsoft account or manually add a key protector. This is documented on a Microsoft site somewhere, but it's shit like this that make me wary of the "bypass Microsoft's shit" approach; the bypass methods often lead to behaviour that Microsoft never bothered to test and has side effects they don't bother to warn you about.