Linux OS that supports older hardware in a laptop (web cam, wifi)

I am looking for a Linux OS that will support my older hardware in my laptop (from 2014). I would like to have a simple, not bloated desktop, but also not too ancient-looking ;) *edit*: By "hardware" I mainly mean wifi and webcam - I do expect Linux to run on a ten-year-old cpu. Here's some more information: The laptop is an HP pro Book, in case that matters. Linux really caught me when I started to use ElementaryOS something like 15 years ago. I have been happy with ElementaryOS, but the recent versions don't seem to support my hardware. At least, it didn't work anymore after an update. So I want to move away from this. (It also doesn't support my USB camera on my computer) Last time I used Ubuntu it brought a lot of bloatware like Amazon search and strange stuff. Also I don't know how well Ubuntu supports old hardware. Maybe Debian with a modern desktop might be a solution for me? Or does this not depend on the distro, but more on something else (like the kernel)? Edit: Using a live version of Ubuntu was a good idea. I booted from it and got greeted with a "missing firmware" message that seems common (many questions on that on the internet). So I've got a starting point although I haven't yet fixed that. My webcam worked out of the box :):) yeah!