http://waffles.i2p/blog/familiarity.html
Fedora, OpenSUSE, and Linux mint are all (debatably) contenders for your mom's old laptop which wasn't eligible for the Windows 11 Upgrade. I always say, contrary to popular belief (and the belief of Linus Sebastian about his own tech-oriented audience), that normies are not as tech-illiterate as we make them out to be.