New Umbrel machine, Mac mini?

Hey there, I bought “the bitcoin machine” back a few years ago, and it’s been fantastic. Having my own lightning node, plus all teh other services available on Umbrel has been great.
But since the upgrade to Umbrel 1.0, my Bitcoin machine has been slowly dying, as 1.0 is not compatible with this hardware.

I would like to build a new Umbrel server, and I have a 2018 mac mini core i5 8GM RAM (upgradable) and a 2TB SSD
I’ve read a few posts here saying to replace the OS with Debian, then install Umbrel.
is that as easy as it sounds? does anyone have any better ideas?

Also is there a guide anywhere?
I couldn’t find one here.

umbrelOS is now a standalone OS so you can use this guide here!

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