Intel NUCs are even better for home server use cases. Similar form factor, much cheaper, and you can put your own memory and storage in them. Just built my own last week and it idles at 5W, it's great.
Also if you try to match the boxes spec by spec; the Mini are usually not that much more.
I've been tempted to buy a Mac for that alone. If there's any similar options for Linux, I would be very interested.
Though I will admit that I typically Brave, Brew, VSCode / Visual Studio and iTerm. It might be me just and not getting any of the real benefit, but I tend to use Windows and Linux just a shell.
The Intel NUCs are excelent little machines. Some of them support Intel AMT, so you can have them completely headless in some cabinet.