And feel like an idiot when Windows 10 support inevitably gets extended in a year anyway.

Well there are 3 options and they are all bad.

1. pay to upgrade your PC (or for extended 10 support)
2. stay on 10 and go without security updates
3. jump through hoops to update to 11 unsupported

It’s almost like being on Windows is all bad.

Install Hackintosh MacOS

/s

Go ahead... you can whisper it to me

Libreboot*

Otoh, Roblox is evil and you could just use the switch to Linux to be like, "oh no, I guess we can't have Roblox anymore!"

roblox works on linux https://sober.vinegarhq.org/

If you need Windows, don’t run it on hardware that doesn’t support Windows 11. If you need it, do it the right way, so you can count on it working.

Now, what do you do with your old hardware? There are plenty of good ideas in the comments here.

It's so annoying to see in literally every thread about windows

Its part of their personality.

They remind me of my devout jehovah witness neighbor who's been doorknocking and dropping flyers in my mailbox for 20+ years to remind me I'm going to burn if I don't convert.

Non-geeky people will generally run things until they actually stop working completely.

Geeky people, on the other hand, may either adopt a new OS while it's still half-baked, or jump through hoops to keep an old one running long past the point where a non-geeky person would have given up. Some of us do both, just for the lulz. Windows 11 on unsupported systems offers a new and exciting(?) way to scratch the same "can I make this work, just for the hell of it?" itch.

I'm running Windows 11 on a 12 year old X79 platform. Runs just fine.

But it was definitely top of the line in its day and 48GB of RAM keeps any system relatively snappy.

One thing doesn't exclude the other.