The asahi linux project is so cool, it makes me want an M2 macbook (M3 I expect no support) so if I ever have a spare thousand dollars and nothing better to buy, I might join the group of mac playing thrivers. I just, wouldn’t lay on OSX, because corporate OSes are bad. Kinda defeats the point, but, yk.
I have no clue which eras or macs have socketed ram lol. All I know is the older mac pros with xeons had the slots in silly places and the new ones aren’t upgradable.