I don’t like Windows either, but my experience with 11 was not as bad. I ran it on now dead 16 year old laptop (Compal FL90). It worked better than Windows 10, although it’s possible that it was old enough to not support some background services. I also disabled BITS and SuperFetch which gave it a huge boost.
But compared to Linux Mint 20.3, Windows 8.1 or the officially supported Windows XP, that was a snail.