I installed Linux Mint on my elderly mother's laptop 8 years ago and never touched it again until it quit and she replaced it about a year ago. I should have ch

I installed Linux Mint on my elderly mother's laptop 8 years ago and never touched it again until it quit and she replaced it about a year ago. I should have checked on it, but "Windows was working just fine" for her, and on my side I forgot I had even done it since I had lived overseas for much of that time.