Will I lose the pre-installed Windows 11 license after switching to linux?

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Hi I am Joe, a windows user software dev.I have a pre-installed windows 11 laptop with 8GB of Ram, as you know windows takes over 4GB so there are 4GB remines, this is not enough for me to get the work done.I have to upgrade the Ram but right now I don't have enough money to buy a new one, so i decided to switch to Arch Linux -temporary- which takes only 512MB of Ram, I got no problems with linux environment as a software developer so I can easily switch to it until I upgrade my Ram, but I am afraid of losing my windows license and i don't want to buy a windows activation key after re-installi

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