@endrift hmm no option for Windows Server? I updated a host from 2012R2 to 2022 last week, shocking it went without issues (though I had to temporarily upgrade to 2019 to do it).

It's almost a tolerable operating system if you can just accept Microsoft's completely brain damaged command syntax instead of Linux's less brain damaged command syntax.

Further, I have thus far I've not seen any AI garbage or other CoPilot/Xbox/etc bloatware, for better or worse. I think at this point I'd much rather buy a grey market Windows Server 2022 key from eBay and run that, than have to run Win11 or even 10. It's worth it just for easy set up of local accounts and skipping that atrocious OOBE process.