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ROFL, I like Linux, but if you can't install windows 11 easily. The problem isn't win11...
The problem is you cursed somebody out on Xbox Live in 2018 and now your Microsoft account is banned.
Windows 11's installer is a mess on anything but the most vanilla hardware configurations.
For example, I am unable to install Windows 11 on my PC because, for some infuriating reason, it keeps trying to install its bootloader on my SATA HDDs instead of the NVME drive I explicitly tell it to install onto, and then failing. It doesn't seem like there's any way forward except to physically disconnect all my SATA drives before installing. One of these days I might need Windows enough to go to that trouble, but right now I'm happy enough single-booting Linux.
Never mind the artificial limitations on TPM configurations. I didn't need to edit my BIOS settings to install Linux, but Windows threw a little fit.
I recall an issue that started with windows 8 and UEFI where the bootloader would get installed on any HDD instead of the SSD where the operating system would live.
Boot into BIOS, disable the controller for the SATA drives, install on nvme, revert BIOS config.
Unfortunately my MSI BIOS doesn't let me disable the ports. :(