One of the "Con's" of Ubuntu is listed as:
Requires modern hardware for better performance
The bare-bones minimum requirements for any Linux distribution should be 8Gb of memory, which is no different than Windows for the last 8+ years now. (I know, Windows says 4Gb, that's not realistic and Windows runs like a pig on three legs with only 4Gb.)
My 12+ year old AMD FX-8350 with a fairly old NVIDIA video card and a reasonable 500Gb Samsung SSD runs Linux 22.04 with Linux Kernel 5.18 very well. Enough so that I use it for my Ham Radio operations and DSP audio processing & editing.
While I haven't tried a number of the distributions on this list, I've been hard pressed to find any hardware made in the last 10-12 years that doesn't have at bare minimum a 2 core Intel or AMD CPU, 8Gb of memory that won't run Linux.
I frequently get older hardware in, clean it, refurbish it, add a cheap SSD here and there, install Linux, Brave Browser, Libre Office on it, secure it, ensure it runs reasonably well and then donate it to someone who needs it. I've done more of these than I can recall. I've yet to run across an older PC that meets the minimum requirements above, that won't run a reasonably well supported version of Linux, Ubuntu being my personal preference.
If you have older hardware 'laying around' give Linux a try. (Again, my preference is Ubuntu and it's install is as easy/simpler than Microsoft Windows. An average computer user can easily install it.)