If you have a 10+ year laptop then there's not much of an advantage going with rolling distros. Stable Debian/Ubuntu distros would be better suited.
Rolling distros are great if you get a brand new laptop with modern HW and fancy features (AV1 encoding, thunderbolt/USB4, keyboard RGB, OLED displays with HDR, variable refresh rate, etc) that require you to be on the bleeding edge to make use of them.
Of course there is. You get to benefit from the latest versions of GNOME or KDE plus thousands of packages that have more recent versions in rolling distros.
I was talking from the perspective of the average user who's moving from away Windows on their 10+ year old laptop, not the developer/tinkerer focused HN userbase who always wants to be on the bleedings edge.
Debian/Ubuntu stable is more than good enough for 95% of the average users, especially, on such old machines, you're better off with Ubuntu/Debian stable than bleeding edge rolling. You don't get any benefits from rolling on such old hardware for the average user but get more risks from potential issues from being on the bleeding edge.
Ubuntu distros exist that take KDE to the bleeding edge but keep everything else on the sabe branch, you don't need to go rolling distro for that.
Rolling distros are great if you get a brand new laptop with modern HW and fancy features (AV1 encoding, thunderbolt/USB4, keyboard RGB, OLED displays with HDR, variable refresh rate, etc) that require you to be on the bleeding edge to make use of them.