Get your taxes done using TurboTax

A few minutes ago I used the New Virtual Machine wizard in Oracle VirtualBox to create a brand new Windows 11 Home Edition VM.  All I had to do was supply a password for the default user account and a Setup key for that edition of Windows 11.  The wizard automatically created a VM with two CPUs and 4 GB of RAM, including a virtual EFI-style BIOS and virtual TPM chip.  It took about 10 minutes from start to finish, including automatically signing into Windows and opening that fancy new Start menu (see screenshot below).

I still plan to try and outsmart the TurboTax installer so that I can continue to keep running TT in my current Windows 10 VM.  But if that turns out to be too difficult then I will either do an in-place upgrade of that VM to Windows 11, or just let VirtualBox create another VM like this one.  In the meantime I'm going to delete this VM as there is simply too much unnecessary baggage with the regular Windows consumer editions.  If Windows 11 become unavoidable then I'll create a VM running an Enterprise or Education edition instead.