I'd suggest something like Linux Mint for someone switching over - but rather than me make assumptions about what she's used before, I usually recommend librehunt.org as a nice starting point to help choose.
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oooh that site is so cool, didn't know about it
A decade ago, when my moms laptop stopped working, I installed Fedora on it and set everything up for her, and she loved using it for years until my dad got her a mac 🙄
Now her mac is deprecated and I'm sure that fedora laptop still works just fine lol
lmao
My mom has a business and mostly uses Windows and Mac OS X
Do all her applications run on Linux? If not, please don't switch. She makes money with that. Money > ideology if you can't afford losing it ;)