Currently running Big Sur on a 2014 MacBook Pro. I have a hard time imagining installing Linux on a machine that is over 7 years old (currently macOS backwards

Currently running Big Sur on a 2014 MacBook Pro. I have a hard time imagining installing Linux on a machine that is over 7 years old (currently macOS backwards compatibility is about 7 years backwards, depending a bit on your model). I mean ok some people will do that but at that point the machine starts to either obsolete or there is something wrong with it already. Why not just run a macOS that is couple of versions older, than install some Linux that probably can't even sleep properly..