Based on your posts and responses here, I really don’t think you have enough knowledge/experience with Linux to be making this move and call for your parents. I’m not trying to be mean or discourage you in this, I’m just being real. You’re going to end up being tech support for this machine and nothing you’re saying makes me think you’re up to that. Backups. Now. Loud noises on an aging machine are a bad sign. The hardware might be on its last legs, and you’re not gonna fix that by installing Linux. Get flash drives, get a DVD burner, get stuff onto the cloud somehow, do whatever backup solution makes sense for your situation. That really should be your first priority here whether or not you can get them to switch. Unless you know for an absolute fact that they don’t have anything important on their computer that they wouldn’t want to lose, you should still be making backups of some kind before making a big change to their computer like installing Linux just in case something goes wrong and you lose everything. Have a plan to repair or replace that computer. Figure out what’s making those loud noises, and fix it if possible. Again, you’re not going to fix a hardware issue with software. Maybe you’re lucky and you just have some fans choked with dust and need to be cleaned out, or maybe the hard drive is failing. Pretty much the only loud noise you’re going to fix with Linux is if the computer is just that bogged down with windows crap that the fans have to be going full speed to keep the computer from cooking itself, but even then you still have to ask whether that machine has enough oomph in it to give them an enjoyable experience on Linux (and it very well might, but at 10 years it’s probably time to start thinking about a replacement, not that I’d want to be shopping for computers right now) If you’re going to disregard those warnings, make a live USB, set it up their computer to boot from it first. Stick that in their computer and let them play with it for a week or two. Show them how to get to their windows files from there. Show them what programs are alternatives to the ones they use the most in windows. Tell/show them that if they don’t like it they just need to turn the computer off and pull the flash drive out and everything will be just as they left it. This is basically what I did to switch my parents over to Linux mint. It helps that their computing needs are basically just office applications and a web browser, so there wasn’t much to teach them. Give them a heads-up that it will probably run a little slower from the USB than it would once it’s actually installed on the computer (on my parents computer it was still faster than windows 11, but was noticeably slow and laggy to me, but is pretty responsive now that I have it installed.)