I have never done that in the past and entertaining the idea of resurrecting older macs I have and install a Linux distro on them. I was concerned that I might

I have never done that in the past and entertaining the idea of resurrecting older macs I have and install a Linux distro on them. I was concerned that I might run into driver issues and such and thought to see what others have experienced in this as I have seen mixed things doing a basic Google search.