SUSE -> Mageia -> Ubuntu -> Manjaro -> Mint -> Manjaro. Been on Manjaro for 4 years now.

I also have a tech-savy mom - and she’s using Linux Mint too. :)

Honestly, besides backupping my data from Windows and choosing a distro that fit my needs, I didn’t really do any preparation.

Cinnamon! Although I want to give KDE another chance to become my default DE.

Qwant. And occasionally Google and DuckDuckGo