Really depends on the distro, use case and how technical the user is. I'm not up to date with what's what, but Bodhi Linux used to be the most friendly for users with old kit. AntiX for more technical users and I used to use OpenBSD on older gear but that required far more mucking about than most users would be comfortable with (and didn't run Rust at the time) plus *BSDs CPU ticks were not efficient power savers for an old laptop.
For most users, who aren't compiling, rendering or other CPU intensive task a ten year old laptop with a decent CPU and 16GB+ memory beats a newer laptop with 8GB because that seems to be well utilised by Linux now. Although I don't know Mac well at all.
I am well out of date on such things so OP is likely a safer bet than my 2p on it.
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