I’ve come into a 2018 Intel Mac Mini, its got an i7 and I’ve upgraded it to 32gb of RAM. I feel pretty constrained on MacOS as I mostly just game. How function are eGPUs under Linux? I’m pretty comfortable on Linux, its what I use on desktop daily. But I’ve never tried anything with external graphics on it. Xorg seems like it could be a mess with config files, is Wayland any better?
I’d recommend getting a tiny/1L Dell/HP/Lenovo box and sticking an enterprise grade dual-port NIC from eBay in it instead, if you want a custom router. Mac minis from that production run came with gigabit, and you had to specifically option a 10G NIC (read: they’re harder to find and generally more expensive), and even then you only get a single port.
I’ll check it out, I do have something on hand though that I’m thinking of going with. As any self respecting “computer guy” I have waaay too many towers around the house and am right now planning to try to use an optiplex 5040 MT as a proxmox box running a pfsense VM and maybe some storage too.
EDIT: Fixed some typos/grammar
