Microsoft allows Windows 11 to be installed on older, unsupported hardware but specifically nixes official support — minimum requirements for full compatibility remain unchanged
And I'm saying it as a 30+ years daily user of linux. Which also has had a lot of interactions with end users.
If there's one thing that people hate, it's change. They hate it when their version of windows changes, so changing for an entirely different system is right out. Even though the differences are trivial to the tech crowd.