Linux Install Info
There will be more complete information later — but the gist is that you will need an installation of Linux to work with. If you have one, great, you're ready. No worries about
For you newbies, there are a couple of ways to do this:
Buy a raspberry pi kit
You can get these from amazon; you probably want to make sure the kit has
- power supply
- case
- sd card with OS.
And that you have
- monitor (your TV will probably work fine, anything HDMI)
- keyboard and mouse (honestly, ask me or lucas or the iHub.
Use your laptop
If you'd like to use your own laptop in the simplest, least invasive way — do the following:
Download (and optionally install Virtualbox for your system from here (host is YOUR REAL SYSTEM; e.g. if you have an Apple/Mac, get the Apple/Mac version)
https://www.virtualbox.org/
Next, download the large ISO file that contains the linux operating system. You have lots of choices here, but if you have no idea, I recommend either Xubuntu for moderate systems or possibly regular Ubuntu for speedy ones. If you have no clue, just go with xubuntu, the first one. Download the ISO — but do NOT try to open it or install it unless you definitely know what you're doing — just make sure you have a copy on hand.
https://xubuntu.org/download (you probably want the 64 bit one)
https://ubuntu.com/#download (Desktop, 18.04,)
Again, just get the huge file downloaded to your computer and remember where you put it, you do NOT need to do anything else.