Except that forcing Windows 11 on to unsupported PC's carries the caveat that once they upgrade chunks of the OS with newer compiler flags (such as the NT kerne

Except that forcing Windows 11 on to unsupported PC's carries the caveat that once they upgrade chunks of the OS with newer compiler flags (such as the NT kernel) the system is rendered unbootable https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-updates-windows-11-24h2-requirements-cpu-must-support-sse42-or-the-os-will-not-boot https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-upda... Granted x86-64-v2 includes the original 2008 Intel Nehalem ("Core" series) and AMD Bulldozer (2011) but it's not unreasonable to assume that they'll slowly "ratchet" up the requirements over time