I couldn't finish the W11 Home Edition installation on my parent's computer without having them create an account, so I just installed Xubuntu on it instead, and probably avoided a lot of headaches.

I'll probably revisit that computer and install Linux Mint with KDE Plasma, and do the same on their W10 machine.

If push comes to shove and they need some Linux incompatible app that I can't get to work with Wine, I'll just buy a used Macbook.

W10 is bad enough and W11 is not a viable option.