You can run from USB to see how it works without installing, then install once you’ve found one that works well/that you like. Let us know how it goes!

I feel like more punctuation was called for here. /s

IIRC, this is one of the reasons that Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0, so that the drive can be encrypted using the TPM as the key.

A lot of people discover Linux and open source software at the same time, so it’s in the same ballpark.

This is not the way.

Blocking ads is one thing, replacing those ads with your own… Not cool.

Yes indeed!

Let us know how it goes-for Science!