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I am pretty sure, you can as easily have encryption only on a single logical partition of that disk, considering you first create a luks partition, unlock it and then format the mapped device with the target filesystem (and install the OS on there).
Or have an entire LVM volume group on that one encrypted partition / mapped device. And have as many logical volumes inside as you want.
You could potentially run Windows in a VM, then you can get rid of the Windows partition and have it all sit within LUKS.