The last mac minis i worked with were the final gen intel ones. Very similar to a NUC, you could run whatever linux on them fine (and even windows with the boot

The last mac minis i worked with were the final gen intel ones. Very similar to a NUC, you could run whatever linux on them fine (and even windows with the bootcamp drivers). I think we'll get to m* series mac minis running linux eventually, it's just going to take some time to get it all ironed out.