I do recommend those little Beelink computers with an AMD CPU. They can be had for a bit less than the Mac mini, and I had no issues getting headless Linux wor

I do recommend those little Beelink computers with an AMD CPU. They can be had for a bit less than the Mac mini, and I had no issues getting headless Linux working on there. I even have hardware transcoding in Jellyfin working with VAAPI. I think it cost me about $400.