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I've used the regkey hack years ago, but recent ones seemed more difficult to bypass. I ended up using a USB stick as well and formatted it with Rufus which has all the options built in to bypass it all. It worked 100% of the time the 3 times I used it. Before doing that 2 systems just wouldnt complete and always ended up giving an error at some point. One of my older systems at work is a Dell Precision which came with a Xeon processor which is normally a server CPU and windows 11 doesnt support server at all so those CPUs aren't compatible. Been running 11 on it 2 years now and is completely stable. The tower is almost 10 years old now, but I dont want to give it up because I know ill never get anything nearly as powerful as a replacement today haha.
It doesn't? I have several servers at work running desktop 11.
Please use a server OS for servers at your hayseed ass company
It runs software that's significantly cheaper--like tens of thousands of dollars a year--for a desktop licence, but it needs a whole bunch of hardware resources. I assure you, it's justified.