2026-10-26 19:36 UTC
Figuring out what to do with an old Mac Mini (Base M1) Linux?
Hey everyone! I’m pretty glad to have come across Lemmy haha. I was going to start looking into doing some self hosting stuff on Reddit and a lot of people seemed a bit… Opinionated.
That said, I have an old base M1 Mac Mini that has been sitting in my closet for a while, and while I do have a simple proxmox setup in my own house for a couple small things, I was considering a fun side project to try to host something for my mom in her house.
My main question is has anyone actually tried doing any self hosting stuff on a 8GB model of a Mac Mini with M1? It seems that Asahi linux supports it pretty well, but its all ARM. I have basically no experience with ARM on linux, especially not on a box made by apple. I have very light experience with a Pi 5 but outside of that not much.
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@51dusty@lemmy.world 2026-10-26 19:59
have had nothing but a stellar experience with asahi. I was bummed when I had to upgrade; but, they are close to an m3 release any day now…