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.
Ok yeah thanks a bunch! And yeah it is pretty silly. I host game servers for the friends and sometimes they dont have linux runners and they dont play nicely in bottles or wine so I have to have a windows VM for those. I try my hardest to stay away from that platform.
I’ll have to go give this a shot.
Hmmm, games / game servers are a bit different since, they are rarely ARM and mostly x86.
You can use tools like muvm or fex to run the x86 version of wine, and then use that to run game servers: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-asahi-remix/x86-support/
People have been able to game on the M1 since it has hardware acceleration, although I never gamed.