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I remember being really surprised when I learned this lol. My SO had an old Windows work laptop that they'd forgotten the password for, and just out of curiosity I tried running a live Linux USB to see if we could access anything, and discovered that we could see everything from every user on there, and that login passwords really didn't do anything at all. It was a real "we should encrypt all our drives" moment.
I would say think twice whether you really need it. Encryption is another technological layer that can fail, so it is double edged sword and encrypting something "just to be on the safe side" might not be the best thing to do.
True but then you actually have to remember the password. Or you can use an USB key to store keyfile or a hardware security key like Nitrokey or Yubikey to decrypt it.