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this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2024
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If it could be my full time personal driver for basic web surfing, email, home automation and photo editing, that would be great. Currently I do everything in the Apple ecosystem, but I have been getting increasingly frustrated with how buggy the software has become. It also drives me bonkers watching Safari use 6.43 of the 8GB of RAM I was dumb enough to purchase my system with. I've also been reading a bit of the recent news of security vulnerabilities in the Apple silicon. I am fairly privacy and security minded,so this bothers me. I use the full proton suite. That said, there's nothing really wrong with the computer and there is no rush to make this happen, and if something won't work on Linux, there is no problem continuing to do it on the Mac Mini.
My advice is to get a few live Linux ISOs and put it on a USB drive with Ventoy. I might be wrong but I think only Asahi Linux and Fedora Asahi are compatible with Apple silicon.
You’ll be able to boot into Linux with those and dip your toes in before deciding to install it and dual boot on your hard drive.
Linux is more frugal with memory, but with 8GB I’d steer away from KDE and GNOME desktop environments. Cinnamon, XFCE and LXQt will run fast.
As to the self hosting goals, I’d hold on for a while until you’re more familiar with Linux. It’s easy to get overwhelmed with too much change.