It also depends on what boot firmware you want to use and what operating system (distro) you want to use and what support you are prepared to do yourself.
To be honest, with Apple being so proprietary, I would wonder whether some of the ancillary ‘chips’ (e.g. 16 core neural engine) even work with Linux - never mind about what those chips might actually be doing behind your back. (Looks like someone may have reverse engineered a Linux driver for the ANE but YMMV and that’s a bit of a mug’s game anyway.)
Have you found any review of someone successfully running any distro of Linux on a Mac Mini 2024, and what hardware components work and what hardware components do not work? It would be my guess that whatever doesn’t work, you won’t get support or information from Apple.
It’s good to see Apple taking the fight to Intel regarding CPU etc. performance. Just a pity that Apple is even worse than Intel regarding helping Linux and freedom.
A quick search brought up the following rather old topic for an earlier version of the Mac Mini: How I installed PureOS on my Mac Mini (2012)