Windows iot is designed to work on small devices such as the Raspberry Pi, and it is not a desktop operating system. You can run scripts on it, do things direct

Windows iot is designed to work on small devices such as the Raspberry Pi, and it is not a desktop operating system. You can run scripts on it, do things directly with the hardware, and that's about it. The point is that a lot of perfectly good hardware out there that can run Windows 10 cannot run Windows 11 "easily" or at all. My laptop is one such a device. Even if it would let me, the dual core cpu would be unbearable under that environment. Installing Linux is not a problem for people interested in using Linux. Younger people are more exposed to Linux because of devices like Raspberry Pi (the one place where "Linux on the Desktop" is absolutely a thing!). But there are a lot of folks who have never used Linux, and probably never will. And their systems will be more landfill fodder.