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From a practical point of view, if you’re already “just” using it as a media-server, wouldn’t a more realistic approach be to just install Linux on it?

That way you can dedicate almost 100% of the limited RAM to Plex and it should keep running fine?

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I can't stream to a HomePod speaker with Linux that I'm aware of. There's other MacOS conveniences I use as well.

Is your Mac mini serving and playing your music, or serving only? The server wouldn’t stream directly to a HomePod speaker, and your player (perhaps on an iPhone or iPad?) would stream to your speaker equally whether the server runs on macOS or Linux.

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