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Hi,
1. Licensing- whatever you transfer as an O/S from your old PC- Win 10- will 'inherit' the digital acitvation rights of your new PC. (There's no difference between a Win 10 and 11 license).
2. Are they both Home or both Pro etc? Or are they different? If different, then that's another consideration.
3. Are both UEFI? If your old one is legacy BIOS you cannot simply clone and transfer.
4. You could take the precaution of backing up your Win 11 PC's drivers - more as a convenience. They would be downloadable from the manufacturer's site.
5. You might run into a driver issue if the new PC has a disk type not directly supported.
6. If you clone your Win 10 build and transfer it, you can then upgrade to Win 11.
Cloning vs imaging?
Whereas a clone is meant to be an exact copy of the bits on the disk (or near enough) an image is a compressed version of the used parts of the partitions imaged. Further, imaging file sets can include a full image plus differential/and/or/incremental images, the latter being differences from one of the previous images and dependent on it for restoration.
'Clone' is used loosely- and includes resizing partitions e.g. to fit a different disk.