For what it’s worth, the “i7” branding isn’t a family, but a tier representation.

So basically it goes like:

i3 = basic i5 = midrange i7 = high end i9 = top end

The first i7s released way back in 2010, so some older i7 chips are not supported by Windows 11 while newer ones (2018 and onwards) are.

But yeah, use Linux :)