Well, back when I used windows TrueCrypt was still a thing.

Depending on your threat model, probably still TC though. If your threat model is the NSA, I'd advise you to not use windows anyways. Plus, if it does turn out TC has a major flaw, someone abusing it might make a noise. And as far as I'm aware the TC audit also hasn't found anything serious so far.

If you aren't betting your life on it, I think you're still fine with TrueCrypt, Plus, encrypting your full drive with it is something my mother could do. Next, next, next done, at least that's how I remember it.

Edit: Thinking about it, this is firstlook.org, maybe they know something we don't, but recommending BitLocker over TC sill seems like a stretch.

TrueCrypt doesn't support EUFI which pretty much all laptops use these days.

Thing about TrueCrypt is that it was built for a specific purpose. Just having the app installed is like walking around wearing lockpicks and saying that you don't pick locks, you're just wearing them for decoration.

If it was called 'ext4' (yes, deliberately pick a conflicting name with something that already exists in widespread use, and provide a drop-in replacement) it might be better. This would be the equivalent of walking around with paper clips instead, which has much better plausible deniability. Bonus points if it could be engineered to actually mount as an ext4 volume if someone actually tried.

The FirstLook article and the EFF suggest DiskCryptor

https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-encrypt-your-windows-devic...