[Por_sha911]

I have two perfectly functioning windows machines that are both too old to get security updates. I screwed up and didn't get Win 10 I bought an 11 laptop.
It is so different that the learning curve was a bummer but worst of all it doesn't give me the ability to setup custom tasks that I can do with the old systems. Combine that with cost of new software that will work with 11 (the old software was not just a lease but had unlimited life), I spent way too much time and money just to get things working as close as possible to what I had that worked perfectly.

Now the bad news: Win 11 is very demanding that you take updates and many of them in the last 18 months had some serious flaws when released. I always tell the system to NOT automatically load updates. I would scan the news to see if the latest release had landmines or not. To date, I am still running 23H because 24H is fraught with problems and going back may not be an option.

Bottom line: 11 does work but it will take an investment of time to learn and adapt it to what you want. Its greatest asset is the ability to use AI (which I shut down - don't trust it any farther than I trust Bill Gates. Or in other words, zero trust). If you have software in your old machine with 10 it will probably work in 11.