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Which is, by the way, totally ok. If you buy an expensive computer and it is getting shipped with a garbage version of an OS that is something to complain about. It's also totally reasonable to complain that there is a garbage version at all. People shouldn't need to reinstall their brand new computers with pirated enterprise versions to escape the abuses of Microsoft. At least let us bitch about this here, dude!
Pirated? You may not be aware, but you can download Windows ISOs straight from Microsoft. The second you boot your machine and register it, the license is permanent and you can install Windows forever.
You have a license for some crappy Win11 home version. You can't use it for the Enterprise versions, even if Microsoft is providing you with the ISO.