It's pretty easy to get around Windows 11's CPU requirements, and the only new snag being the POPCNT instruction requirement introduced in 24H2. But if you don'

It's pretty easy to get around Windows 11's CPU requirements, and the only new snag being the POPCNT instruction requirement introduced in 24H2. But if you don't have CPU that supports that you probably don't want to be running modern Windows anyways. If you really don't want to use Windows 11 (and I don't blame someone for that) Linux and Proton is truly amazing.