I have a Linux Mint running on a intel atom CPU with 256mb ram and no graphics card and it kinda works.

    • bruhduh
      3•1 month ago

      Trashcan Mac is good tho, as compact and quiet Linux machine it is

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 month ago

        They’re almost down to a price where I’d consider picking one up just because I think they look awesome, and are reasonably easy to max out their spec. Trouble is, that maxed out spec might tip its benchmarks over my M2 Macbook. Might.

        • bruhduh
          1•1 month ago

          Xeon 2696v3 is good with it’s 18 core 36 threads, this cpu cost around 45$ on AliExpress too, also top up 128gb ram and it’ll be great homeserver

          • @[email protected]English
            3•1 month ago

            Out of interest, I just looked up the actual benchmark scores.

            A ‘13 Pro with a Xeon 2697v2 scores 4891 on multi core

            My 15” M2 MacBook Air scores 9735 on the same.

            It’s astonishing how much Apple leapt ahead when the M-series chips dropped. Sure, the Intel machines on macOS still have their uses, (I’m typing this on a 2014 Mac mini that I use for work), but Apple have done an incredible job of flooding the market with solid hardware to install Linux on.