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I really don't understand the fascination with Mac OS. I have two macs and tbh it feels like a polished Linux distro that doesn't run that well after a few OS versions (my 2015 Macbook Pro is so slow it is useless now and I've bought a Thinkpad).

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.

What sort of home server use cases do people need OS X for? The only thing I could think of is running an Xcode build server but that seems quite niche.

It appears that an OS X server can take any compatible printer and expose it to the network as a generic PostScript printer. Clients on the network only need to support PostScript, and the server handles everything device-specific.

I've been tempted to buy a Mac for that alone. If there's any similar options for Linux, I would be very interested.

Why would you want to run macOS on a server (no matter that it is just home server)?

The Intel NUCs are excelent little machines. Some of them support Intel AMT, so you can have them completely headless in some cabinet.