Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11

There's tons of hardware that runs perfectly fine on Windows 10 but can't be (officially) upgraded to Windows 11. Even if you meet the TPM requirement some CPUs are not (officially) supported and you can't upgrade . My Lenovo ThinkCenre with an i7 and 32 GBs of RAM is one of them. I have no interest in buying new hardware when what I have is perfectly ample. I'll just switch back to Linux when the clock runs out.

Just bought a Lenovo Windows 11 laptop to replace my aging Win10 one. (My main computer is still my Win10 desktop -- I mostly use the laptop for surfing and email.) I couldn't find any new Lenovo Win10 laptops for sale.

An article on Tom's Hardware showed me how to avoid a Microsoft account. And with the help of ShutUp10++ and StartAllBack, plus uninstalling a bunch of crappy apps, I've been able to make it into a reasonably well behaved machine. It still wants to push Edge on me, but I've been rooting out those settings too. I see that life after Win10 is indeed possible, but I wouldn't want to recommend it to anybody.