I've had laminate in the office for at least 15 years, no wear from chair rollers. I did get an area rug a few years ago just to wrarm up the area and so the chair didn't slide out from under me
If I were to design a quilt room from scratch I'd use laminate. I have low pile carpet there now and I wouldn't do carpet again, all the threads and pins and needles just make a nightmare for the vaccumn. I've been laying out quilts this morning to sell and the threads just keep coming and need to be picked off before photography. PITA.
I probably would put a small area quilt in front of the machine chair, just the eliminate the rollaway problem.