Thanks mark, that's exactly the kind of information I was looking for. I am an old timer who has used MSDOS at first and then went through the various iterations of Windows, basically using it since Windows 3.0, 3.1, Windows 95, XP, and on and on, and the history of Microsoft going from one version to the next has not been done well IMHO. I remember all kinds of driver issues and incompatabilities, programs that would not install and/or run properly, and just tremendous amounts of bugs when the OS was first released. Being on the bleeding edge and immediately jumping on the newest version of the OS was a BIG mistake for a lot of people. Normally, most of my friends and I would wait about 2 years after the release before even considering using the new OS due to the problems - we would simply wait for new drivers to be written and bugs worked out before using MS's newest baby.
I think things are better these days, but I am sure you can understand why I want to be careful before moving up. I think that your observations that you "have never noticed any difference between MC's behavior on Win 10 v.s. Win 11" make me feel much more comfortable about upgrading to the newest OS, especially since MS is giving it to me for free. My dedicated HTPC is running very well right now, and I would not have been happy if all of a sudden things got broken with the upgrade.
Thanks again, mark! Good stuff!