Reliably, yes, and it is one of the most satisfying things you can do with hardware you already own. I put Linux on a 2017 iMac that had become painfully slow under modern macOS, I reinstall old laptops with Debian for people at the community centre where I volunteer, and I once ran a fifteen year old ThinkPad X200 as my main machine for a month to see what an offline-first workflow teaches you. The limit is usually the owner's expectations, not the hardware.