If the reason for you wanting to avoid bitlocker is incompatibility with linux, you might want to reconsider. It's been many years since I had drives with bitlocker+ntfs, but they worked reasonably well back then with dislocker, so perhaps check that out before considering alternatives.
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You can't choose the bitlocker password yourself right? If that's true, then that's why I avoid bitlocker.
Years ago, you could - I'm not sure what the situation is currently, but it would be extremely weird if they had removed this possibility entirely. You could see if the official command line tool does what you need. At least there seems to be an option to change the password.
Thank You.
What type of encryption do you need? NTFS can natively provide encryption, but it's going to be file level. LUKS2 is block device level, so the whole filesystem looks like one encrypted blob.
EDIT: And I don't know if Linux can do encrypted NTFS. If not, that wouldn't work for the shared storage.
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Nope. Looks like there's a utility, ntfsdecrypt, to do decryption on a file-by-file basis, though. Probably not what you want, though.
EDIT2: This guy is recommending VeraCrypt, as it works with both. I've never used it, though, and the post is eight years old, so I suppose the situation could have changed.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/306398/does-linux-work-well-with-encrypted-ntfs-drives
Linux doesn't support NTFS file-level encryption. Bitlocker using the recovery key sorta works but is still very new(look here for more info). Windows in turn can't read LUKS-encrypted devices. If you need to share your encrypted drive between Windows and Linux, I'd recommend VeraCrypt or one of the other TrueCrypt forks.
But veracrypt has it's own boot loader right? Won't it replace rEFInd?
The one that asks password before boot (full encryption)