Nitro5 sibling! I just used the Microsoft reinstall method of making my system factory fresh. Thinking of going with Debian with X and Xfce. I don't know why MS took away the ability to have a system bar at the top of the screen for Win11 but I was able to kludge it to the top but ran into so many issues that I finally did the factory reset.
I'm also thinking about doing dual boot but I've read that MS doesn't play nice anymore in that scenario. Last time I dual booted was the XP days. Is there a reason you didn't dual boot?
I enjoyed reading it for the most part but couldn't get through it all. Thanks for the link.