Thirded. It just works. Even deployed to elderly relatives with wifi printers with no issues.

Seconded. I’ve been using it for years because it just works, but if I want to try to break shit do things myself I can.

The one and only objectively best answer, imo.

I researched this question for a laptop to sell on eBay. I tried Pop OS and Mint and choose Mint.

It seems that Mint may be the most popular distro for older Linux laptops sold on eBay.

More specifically, Linux Mint Debian Edition. Canonical has been very weird, I would get the debian based branch

https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php