For a good moment I thought this was a draft of #UnixSurrealism

Cool! Saving for later.

If you have an nvidia card, which is very common and can’t always be avoided, there is significant benefit in newer drivers, for one

Huh.

There’s a time and place for a DIY solution and academia can well be like that sometimes.

The latest Mac Mini can’t run Linux though. It’s M4 and asahi doesn’t even support M3 chips yet. But if you actually got the previous model with M1/M2 you can do Linux if desired. I might not attempt, and just use the Mac as a server as-is. It’s not too different from Linux. Asking the duck for “how to xx on Mac” when you already know the Linux equivalents should make your life tolerable.

Wanna share more details? Sounds like something I should actually put on my 32gb