If your board does not have a TPM header/bios option...then yes. Personally I'm thinking this will cause such an uproar that M$ might change that. Their might be a court action because as far as I know, only OEM's provide TPM chips on their boards and that cuts out DIY'ers from building their own pc's with Windows !!
Microsoft has updated the mininum system requirements... No more Hard Floor / Soft Floor... TPM 2.0 and a compatible CPU model are now mandatory.
TPM chips The chip generates a unique permanent identifier for a specific computer. This number is generated while the computer is still being built and cannot be changed. This identifier is then read by the various web services and software that are installed on the computer. That's right away you have telemetry and control over all the sheep. The TPM chips should not be bought, they should be soldered out and thrown away. If you want to have at least minimal anonymity. Generally speaking, the Trusted Platform Module is more of a political and legal tool than a technological system. How to apply this chip will be decided by politicians.
Actually, the freed space not showing up is persisting across any other installed Windows too. So its kind of a problem.
Again, this might be fine after all. If they only have it as a requirement for those kind of features, the base OS should be able to run just fine the way it does now as long as we can get around the installer problem with DISM/etc
So my i7-7700HQ can not run windows 11 while all other things passed ? I hope linux will take over some day so microsoft can die slowly...those rats