Ancient laptops can have a new lease of life if they are booted from a version of Linux of appropriate vintage. My Win7 laptop runs happily now under Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, although it runs out of memory quite quickly if it has to do any heavy lifting, like hosting several people on a zoom session, as it only has 4 GB of RAM. There is a stable release of Ubuntu every two years, in April, the fourth month, so Ubuntu 24.04 means the release in 2024 in April. For an older laptop with limited memory, you might want to choose an older version such as Ubuntu 20.04 which runs quite happily in 2 GB of RAM.