have you tried running sfc /scannow and
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth && DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
from admin command prompt?
They may just fix an unseen error that prevents you from upgrading.

Me or JC? (I know you replied to JC, but I’m hazarding your comment was for moi?)

Anyhow I’ve got bigger problems now - Lenovo Support “solution” to send me a link to create a recovery key and reimage the machine from scratch.

Anyway. This was the result of that little 3 hour endeavour.

https://postimg.cc/w74K6Rd5

Machine won’t clean boot at all now. So something to fix tomorrow. At least I know what the dirty culprit is 😂. Did I mention how much I love Windows. Not 😄

Yikes. We just reset on device at a corporate level if changing user.

I am happily playing on Solus Plasma (Linux) and haven't booted (dual) into Win 11 in weeks. Only downside to Solus in a rolling distro is updates every week but so far the developers haven't introduced any bugs or snafus in my 6 months of using it.

Updates every week are a plus, not a downside.

I’m all set for Windows alternatives. Need a working Windows 11 laptop. Ideally 24H2. Hence thread

In reply to a post by jchamier:

Yikes. We just reset on device at a corporate level if changing user.

Yup. Something is horribly amiss (that's me being polite at 7:20-ish am), if a new machine BSOD's after a re-image from the official recovery media 🤣

Mmm. Difficult to generalise - depends what all the updates are for. I tend to be more a subscriber to the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" school of thought.

I subscribe to the "always apply security patches" school of thought. I'd be surprised if a week goes by without any.

Just because I think it ain't broke doesn't mean that someone else doesn't know better.

In reply to a post by TinyMongomery:

I subscribe to the "always apply security patches" school of thought. I'd be surprised if a week goes by without any.

Always the case in enterprise systems, with commercially supported Linux distros such as RHEL you want to know the exact built state, not cherry pick packages. Or your third party enterprise software won’t be supported on the server. Just not worth the headaches.

Just because I think it ain't broke doesn't mean that someone else doesn't know better.

This was why MS went to the one big patch per month, unlike the NT4, and XP days.