Asahi is great, you can just run whatever.

Mine is mostly a host for my self- created small scale models, but its also a great jellyfin server. The M series is pretty solid for that, or really anything that has GPU loads is good (immich f9r example).

The m -series is great in terms of low power and solid output, highly recommended.

I'm using it as a server, a bunch of self-hosted stuff.

When I had Asahi, I just used it as a daily driver laptop. It worked perfectly fine for all of the stuff I wanted to do on my M1.

For a server, it will probably work fine as well. You have to ensure that say, the apps/docker containers you use support ARM, but ARM is fairly popular and well supported nowadays.

I did have one issue with podman, where apparently the memory is organized differently on the M1, which causes some docker containers, even if they are built for ARM, to be incompatible. I had to use podman machine, which is podman's built in virtual machine that lets you run containers in their instead. It is designed for Mac OS, which is kind of ironic since the whole point of using Linux was that I wouldn't have to run a virtual machine just to run podman/docker containers.

it was my daily driver with light dev.

Most of the software I would use on a laptop worked; browser, editor, etc... I imagine anything that supports fedora arm64 will run fine.

I don't think wine worked at the time. Besides that it was smooth sailing except for the fedora learning curve.

for that, Immich is pretty much made for it. the phone app can back up automatically and it's the closest thing to Google/iCloud Photos you can host. it has arm64 images and the docs say 6GB RAM minimum, 8 recommended, so a base M1 is fine for one person. one Asahi gotcha: it uses 16K memory pages, and a few arm containers built with older jemalloc crash with "Unsupported system page size" (some Immich postgres tags did this on the Pi 5). the current default compose file is fine, just don't copy an old pinned database image from a random guide.