Pay for linux, possibly. Pay Canonical for Linux, absolutely not. They're on my list of enshittifiers, who by definition should never be given any money in any form.
Well, i also would rather use Windows 11 than ubuntu. (I probably would also rather pay for Windows than ubuntu)
Every time i tried to use ubuntu it was the worst OS/Linux experience i ever had. A friend wanted to try linux once, picked ubuntu because its a "noob friendly" distro, and i had a "critical system error" pop up before even booting up once.
And this is by far the most stable experience i had with ubuntu.
Also ubuntu is ugly and slow (In my experience, In my opinion).