You can restore any old laptop with functioning hardware regardless of the initial operating system. Arch Linux would be the most advisable in any case; Unless ease of use is of concern. You can run it on literally antything since all you need to install is a kernel, networking tools, etc as needed instead of bloated uselessness. I dislike installing a distro preinstalled with Libre office software and a bunch of GUI stuff. I mainly only use the terminal
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You can do the same with fedora when doing custom minimal install, lots of options when it comes to older hardware. :D
*anything that is 64bit if you want to use really old 32bit hardware then you are going to have to look at another distribution or the unofficial 32bit version of arch
I still use a 2012 macbook with Linux
I was running arch for a while but recently gave fedora a try and even the "bloated" default install with GNOME runs pretty smooth on what's now a close to a decade old machine.