[time4good]

I solved it by installing Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC that is supported until January 2032. Everything I need runs just fine.

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Very cool post. I'll have to try that. Yeah I have W10 on almost all of my non-work Windows machines. I refuse to pay for the upgrade (hassle of time and money) but I did a bit of googling and found a few places that have a bootable USB (yes I scanned it before using) that let you bypass the W11 hardware reqs (TPM 2.0, CPU with some supervisor instructions, etc.) and install from your ISO. Worked fine. So you can do it. But don't bother until you're forced to.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

One of my 13-year old unqualified Dell runs fine, updates and all. I just used Rufus to install.l it.