I don’t know but I think fedora, archlinux, Debian, Ubuntu are all user friendly considering the amount of docs available and the fact that probably being an ol

I don’t know but I think fedora, archlinux, Debian, Ubuntu are all user friendly considering the amount of docs available and the fact that probably being an old laptop it is already fully configured on the get go, also probably it depends more on what you run on the distro more than the distro itself, try xfce or lxde first and see how it performs