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No worries bud! It really makes me angry what M$ is doing here, obviously they're not alone in being a cause of our eWaste "addiction"...but this is really a situation that should be opening people's eyes. Apple is bad for it too. Their laptops have a fairly short lifecycle, and unless you want/can to put Linux on your MacBook whatever, it's no longer secure after usually about 5 years. Intentionally driving the disposable culture, buy, use briefly, replace for arguably too much, repeat.
Have her try Nobara for a week, but tell her it's hardly the only option! With how easy it is to include SLK into (almost?) any distro, I really wasn't kidding when I said the Linux Universe is your oyster! Hell, you could compile your own distro if you're a masochist!