For those of you who want to upgrade to Windows 11, but have a machine that doesn't officially support it, there's Rufus. https://rufus.ie/en/
It uses a legitimate Windows 11 ISO, which you download yourself from Microsoft's website using the Media Creation Tool. Once you have that, Rufus will use it to make a bootable USB stick that installs Windows, bypassing the TPM and other requirements.
I like RUFUS and the bypases. Problems with running Win11 on unsupported hardware are:
* If you install Win11 on non-compliant hardware, yearly upgrades (say from Win11 24h2 to Win11 25h2) are a pain in the ass. And not automatic. So, you have to deal with a yearly paion in the ass, or be as insecure as on unsupported Win10*.
* If your non-compliant's machine (i/d)GPU lacks WDDM2.0 drivers, your display will be slow as hell and look like ass
* If your non-compliant machine has hardware that lacks Windows Desktop Universal Drivers, said hardware will not work (or work like crap with generic drivers), as Win11 does not support the older Windows Universal Drivers.
* If your non-compliant Win10 machine lacks the bibs abd bobs needed for HVCI (3rd gen or older intel), your machine may fail in the future.
* If your machine has the HVCI Stuff, but lacks the MBEC stuff (4th to 6th gen intel), you will have performance degradations (depending on workload).
* If you game on a non compliant Win11 machine, and you do not have TPM2.0 or SecureBoot for reasons, many a game (doubly so those that use anti-cheetos) will refuse to load.
Stay on Win10 + ESU for this year, and re-evaluate on july next year. At least, if in 2026 you decide on rufus, you'll save yourself the 25h2 to 26h2 pain in the ass, as you will go straight to 26h2.
* My brother is doing exactly that stupidity with the 7 desktops of his SMB. Last year I found the machines running 23h2, and I can bet pennies to dimes that they are still like that.