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Re:Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS by pja on Thursday April 21, 2022 @07:04AM (#31107939)
IIRC Windows 11 will no longer boot from MBR partitions & you have to convert them to GPT.
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Re:Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS by little_panda on Thursday April 21, 2022 @04:14PM (#31114638)
It will; there are tweaks out there that explicitly allow for installing windows 11 on an mbr partition.

Hint: download the latest version of Rufus, point it to a windows 11 iso and select the "Extended installation" mode. The result will happily install itself onto an MBR partition.

I performed an upgrade (!) of a windows 10 installation to windows 11 in this manner; I'm writing from this SSD right now.

  PS C:\Users\alexa> $(get-disk | ? {$_.IsSystem}).PartitionStyle; [System.Environment]::OSVersion.Version 
  MBR
  
  Major  Minor  Build  Revision
  -----  -----  -----  --------
  10     0      22000  0
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