Personally my M1 Mac mini replaced the idea of a home server NUC for me. My workstation is also my server now because I don't need to worry about power consumption on it.
While the hardware itself may be astounding, the operating system is not my preferred choice for a server... even if asahi linux may already work well.
I tried TrueNAS Scale, Proxmox, handcrafted debian, Terraform+Ansible scripts and with all the problems it may have, Proxmox is my choice for over a year now and I never regretted it.
I already used the ZFS rollback feature [1] twice to get back where I was and IT JUST WORKS... never had issues so far.
Yeah, the Mac is definitely for lighter home server tasks. I tried in the past to run more complex stuff, and it wasn't worth the hassle of figuring out macOS's differences vs Linux. Had PowerEdges in the basement once for a startup, but nowadays the Mac is enough.
