I upgraded to windows 11 by accidentally pressing spacebar on startup
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Free updates for a year in Europe (I think only Europe is for free). Many years for "free" with IOT edition (what I do for my dual boot and my partner's main)
As a Linux user of 25 years, I can still say not everybody can move to Linux, and not everybody can move to Mac or W11 (buy a new machine or tinker to install in old machines).