I installed Linux for a couple old ladies. Debian (Mate) on old desktops so they could browse the web and write. Zero issues. Fast and dead stable. They love it.
My non technical girlfriends main PC is a 2011ish iMac running Mint. She loves it, zero issues, has never even needed me to look at it. Surprisingly stable for how old a machine it is.
Reckon I’ll swap in an SSD at some point because the decade old spinning rust has to be on its last legs at this point.
> Reckon I’ll swap in an SSD [for the] decade old spinning rust
I don't know if Mint's arrangement will be as sensitive to it as Windows, but when we swapped an old SSD of mine into a friend's laptop the boost it was enough to quickly take it from “this thing needs to go in the bin after a meeting with a lump hammer” to being her main workhorse.
And installation was a no-brainer.
One service call, dead power supply, in 6 years.