Try archlinux+i3wm. This is best thing happened to my laptop 💻
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It's probably not the best idea to recommended arch to a beginner
I always like to use zorin os lite or xubuntu, both based on xfce. linux mint could also be a good choice, or maybe, if it's still not good lubuntu
Ubuntu uses snaps, which I've found sluggish on older ide hard drives. To be honest, even flatpaks are very slow for these in my experience.
I think you might be better off with opensuse tumbleweed.
Novelty recommendation besides tumbleweed: antix.
While I haven't used antix except out of curiosity in a virtual machine, they are lightweight, but they have a hard stance against systemd.
give AntiX a shot, I run it on my own older laptop and it's super snappy. Be aware it doesn't come with a DE, just your choice of 4 WMs, and is quite bare bones but still a fully functional Distro out of the box.