I to be honest have started thinking that there is a mutual interest for OEMs and Microsoft to support each other, like how many new laptops are going to be sol

I to be honest have started thinking that there is a mutual interest for OEMs and Microsoft to support each other, like how many new laptops are going to be sold thanks to the windows 11 requirements? Meanwhile you get a Linux distro on a laptop from 20 years ago and either lxde or xfce or whatever and it runs almost like new OEMs then save the cost of license but open a Pandora box of voiding absolescence